Gaio Astrophotography

here i share my astrophotography experience from the beginning, all my images

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After 2 months of bad weather, i am finally back shooting astro. Right now my target is the horse head nebula. I am using a 7nm H-alpha filter. #astrophotography #astronomy (em Caxias do Sul)

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I decided to to put together all data of the Tarantula Nebula that i could gather so far. This is the result. 20 subs of 10 minutes each at ISO 200. This is a very resumed list of my technical data. 1. I run my mount straight from my laptop, no hand controller. I use EQASCOM drivers and the excellent EQMOD project software. 2. My planetarium software is Cartes du Ciel, it talks straight to EQMOD to point my scope to my chosen target. 3. I use Astrotortilla, an absolutely remarkable piece of software. It centers my target in the frame with 1 arc minute precision with one click. 4. PHD 2 is my choice of guiding software, i use a QHY5L-II monochrome camera and an off axis guider, with an 0.5x focal reducer on the camera. Off Axis are tricky to use, hard to focus, and can vignette a corner of your images, but it virtually eliminates the flexure problem. 5. I am a DSLR guy (for now), so i must use BackYardEOS, one of the best camera controller softwares ever made! My current camera is a Canon T2i Full spectrum that i modified by myself. 6. My telescope is a 10" Newtonian, it really can capture a lot of photons, but it haves coma, an undesired feature that makes the stars at the edges of the frame looks like seagulls. That's why i use a GSO coma corrector. 7. My area have moderate to heavy light pollution, to overcome this issue i use a Otplong L-Pro light pollution filter. Telescope GSO 10" Newtonian GSO Coma corrector Mount Skywatcher Neq6 Pro Camera Canon T2i A Filter Optolong L-pro QHY5L-II + off axis guider Softwares: EQMOD, BackYardEOS, PHD 2, Cartes du Ciel, Astrotortilla, Pixinsight. #astrophotography #astronomy #astrofotografia #astronomia (em Caxias do Sul)

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This is IC 2944, also known as the Running Chicken Nebula. 45 lights of 120 seconds ISO 400, in very poor seeing conditions Telescope GSO 10" Newtonian GSO Coma reducer Mount Skywatcher Neq6 Pro Camera Canon T2i A Filter Optolong L-pro QHY5L-II + off axis guider Softwares: EQMOD, BackYardEOS, PHD 2, Cartes du Ciel, Astrotortilla, Pixinsight. #astrophotography #astronomy #astrofotografia #astronomia (em Caxias do Sul)

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NGC 3372, the Carina nebula. Image taken over the last 2 nights. 90 subs of 120 seconds ISO 400 with 20 darks, flats and biases. Look at the dust pillars at the bottom center! #astrophotography #astronomy (em Caxias do Sul)

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Now officially starting the 2017 ETA Carinae season! Things are looking good so far... #astrophotography #astronomy (em Caxias do Sul)

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Clear nights are expected in the next days, after 1 month of clouds. #astropanel (em Caxias do Sul)

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This is a totally reworked version of my Trifid nebula shot taken June 2016. Improved Pixinsight techniques brought out a whole lot of detail, even some dark nebula outside the core is visible. This is a stack of 20 shots of 40 seconds ISO 6400, with darks and bias frames. #astronomy #astrophoto #astrophotography #astrography #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)

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Here is another restoration work in progress. From left to right, the original, restored and coloured version. This is a picture of my mother taken circa 1954. Photography by Uncle Bepi. #colorization #restoration #colourization #retouching #photography #photoshop (em Caxias do Sul)

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This is NGC 3372, the Carina nebula. The only image set i was able to capture over the last December. I am using an optolong L-pro light pollution filter clipped on my Canon t2i modified camera. 25 subs of 200 seconds ISO 400, with darks, bias and flats frames. #astrophotography #astronomy #universe #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)

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Hello my friends! I wish you all a Merry Christmas and happy 2017, full of clear skyes! #astronomy #astrophotography #merrychristmas #happy2017

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I'm starting on a new endeavour, old black and white photo restoring and colorization 😀. I will post my work along with my astrophotography images in this account, hope you dont mind! This is a picture of my father (right) and his cousin, taken circa 1965, photographer unknown. It took me about 20 hours of work to complete. Special thanks to @marinaarts for the inspiring work. (em Caxias do Sul)

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Another night imaging NGC 3324, but now included in the frame the beautiful open cluster NGC 3293. The red nebulosity is a corner of the huge Carina Nebula. This was 4 hours of integration time with terrible seeing conditions and full moon. All integration and post processing was done with #pixinsight. #astrophotography #astrophysics #astronauttattoo #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)

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This is NGC 3324 open cluster and IC 2599 emission nebula. Located in the constelation of Carina, its also known as Gabriela Mistral Nebula. The nebulosity on the left is part of the Great Carina Nebula. This image was captured last night under full moon sky glow. #astrophoto #astrophotography #astronomy #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)

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M8 Lagoon Nebula, integrated and reprocessed all the data gathered through 2016. #astrophoto #astrophotography #universe #nebula #lagoon (em Caxias do Sul)

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NGC 2070, Also known as 30 Doradus or Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. You can see among the nabulae and countless stars, at least 4 globular clusters and many open star clusters. In this session i was able to refine my guiding and took 11 exposures of 10 minutes each at ISO 200. #astrophoto #astrophotography #astronomy #universe #cosmos #stargazing #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)

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Oh no! Tarantula Nebula again? Yes! 😂 This reprocessing of the last shot was stacked in DSS instead of Pixinsight. #astrophoto #astrophotography #astronomy (em Caxias do Sul)

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After a fierce struggle with my off axis guider and PHD2, i was able to take some usable shots of the Tarantula Nebula. Too bad i did not get more data, seeing was great! #astrphotography #astronomy #universetoday (em Caxias do Sul)