Astromarco

Name: Astromarco
Address: Turin, 10141, IT
Telephone: +393281680473

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Turin
Astromarco

All pictures here are taken by me! Neophyte Astrophotographer
Aerospace engineering student

21/10/2023

Here is my first photo of a new long long series: Planetary photography!

This shot is indeed my first shot at Jupiter with this new telescope and equipment and i'm quite happy with the results.

Processed throught: PIPP, Autostakker, Registax and Photoshop

The technique used to capture this beatiful image is called lucky imaging.
It consist in take short exposures (therefore a video) and selecting the best ones that are not influenced by the turbolences of the atmosphere.

In this particular case, this image was made with a video of 10k frames and selected the 20% best out of it.

11/09/2023

The best image I could ever produce.

This is something you will not see every day, but I guarantee you that what you are seeing right now is a planet orbiting its own star.
Exactly, you read it right. This is not in our solar system!
As long as I'm concerned, it's unbelievable what advance in technology has made possible today.

The star KOI-13 is located at almost 1354 lights years away from us and its planet KOI-13b revolves it really close and fast.
The mass of the planet is 9.28 times greater than the mass of Jupiter located at 0.036AU (distance Earth-Sun) from its star.

The method which I used is called the transit method.
Essentially, one would look at the light intensity of a star and wait for a change in luminosity when a planet passes in front of it.
For those of you wondering, this change in light intensity (relative flux) for this particular star was approximately 9ppt (parts per thousand, 0.9%)

Shot with
Skywatcher cq350 mount and Quattro300P,
Evoguide 50ED with barlow 2,25x
Zwo ASI 585MC Planetary Camera
Zwo EAF

Calibrated with 100 flats, 100 darks, 200 Bias, 50 dark flats

Captured with N.I.N.A.
Processed with HOlomon

04/09/2023

Lately, I have been asked a lot about my equipment. Here is a descriptive post about it.
I will also make some permanent stories in order to clarify😉

First thing first, this is my second, and became main, setup. The first mount and optical assembly are respectively the Omegon EQ320 and Omegon 150P (Newtonian design, F5, 750mm focal length).

What you can see in the photo is me with the following equipment:

- Mount: Skywatcher cq350 Pro equatorial mount

- OTA: (Optical tube assembly): Skywatcher Quattro300P (Newtonian design, F4 1200mm focal length)

-> Guiding:
- Scope: Skywatcher 50ED Guiding scope (242mm focal length)
- Guide cam: ZWO ASI 290MM Mini Guide camera
- Barlow 2,25x Baader Q turret (Variable barlow)

-> Imaging train:
- Camera: ZWO ASI 585MC Planetary cam
- Coma corrector: Skywatcher AO Supercomacorrector (for f4 newtonians)
- Autofocuser: ZWO EAF Advanced (Electronic automatic focuser, with temperature sensor and joystick)

-> Extra accessories:
- Barlow: Televue powermate 5x
- Hyperion mark IV zoom eyepiece
- Flat field generator: Geoptik
- Omegon Telrad finder
- Celestron 2,3mm eyepiece
- Baader laser collimator

I use to image from a bortle 3/4 sky.

03/08/2023

Here is some previous pictures from april that I just re-edited. A little close-up on some moon craters 🧀🌘

17/05/2023

First try on a moon mosaic🥰, Also a bit of processing for an hdr moon... but I love how this turned up💜

Photo taken with a 150 f5 Newt Telescope,
Asi 585 MC camera
No filter used
No barlow/reducer used

Processed with Pipp,Autostakker,Registax and Photoshop

03/05/2023

A NEW post about this one. This is The Great Orion Nebula!

Made with the same setup but with a little bit more experience💜

08/03/2023

Jupiter re-edited taken with my new and first astrophotograpy camera:
The ASI 585 MC color.

This shot was made by 20% of 1800 frames stacked together and combined to a single photo. Hope you enjoy it! 😉

150 f5 Telescope on eq-320 mount
Barlow 2,25x

If you pay attention, you will also be able to see the giant red spot of Jupiter, which is larger than 2 earths combined!

01/01/2023

Happy new year 🌌
That's the Andromeda Galaxy!
My best image so far...
There is still a lot of noise, but for the moment, I think it's just ok...
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Equipment used:

* Omegon 150 f5 Telescope
* EQ 320 Motorised
* Zwo ASI 585MC camera

Magnification 5x
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Data:

* 70x10s exposure
* 50 Dark
* 50 Flats
* 100 Bias

Processed throughout DSS and Photoshop.
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Indirizzo

Turin
10141

Telefono

+393281680473

Sito Web

http://astromarco.picfair.com/

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