2024 Northern Hemisphere Public Vote
2024 is sure shaping up to be a great year for astrophotography! Here we have the final 16 of the nPAE Northern Hemisphere competition. We have a clean sweep of objects for you to choose from: Deep sky, Lunar, Solar, Planetary and Star-scape.
In country alphabetical order we are pleased to present the final 16 for the Public Popular Vote.
Zlatko – Croatia
Title of your Astro photo: Planetary nebula
Equipment used: Newton Truss 254mm F/3.8 reflector # Atik 414 ex Mono # Astronomik filter (Ha & OIII). Ha-1h O3-1,5h
Imaging Target: NGC 7139
Digital processing methods employed (if any): MAxim DL & Pixinsight
Oliver – France
Title of your Astro photo: Large Field Panoramic Rosette Nebula Cone Nebula, The supernova remnant SNR G206.9+2.3
Equipment used: Lens Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L USM, Camera Canon EOS R6 (modified(e)), Mount Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro, Filter Idas NBZ Auto guide, Lacerta MGEN-3 standalone auto guider
Imaging Target: 3 panels of 4 hours exposition each panel
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Pixinsight – Photoshop
Remi – Frame
Title : NGC 7129
Equipement used: ATIK 460 EX MONO 200/1000 SW EQ6, Telescope: 200/1000 sw, Camera: Atik 460ex, Guide: Asi 290, Mount: eq6 sw
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Nina, pixinsight and Photoshop. L 91x420s, R 51x180s, HA 562x420s, V 51x180s, B 51x180s,Ttotal: 83h50
Extra notes: I started photographing in May. A few rough ones ha but nothing convincing. Taking a look at astrobin, I realized that it was still possible from the image of the astrophotographer Lyaphine to bring out some faint jets of supernova remnants around ngc 7129. Of course, having a lot of luck and aiming to get closer to the image of the 8.2 meter Subaru telescope. Objective achieved with 65 hours of ha acquisition. Obviously the details on this area are not there, but there is signal. It’s great!
Istvan – Hungary
Title of your Astro photo: Tulip Nebula and the Cygnus X-1 black hole
Equipment used: TS-Optics 8″ f/4 UNC Newtonian Telescope with Carbon Tube, ASI2600MC, ZWO AM5
Extra notes: I began my SH2-101 project in 2022, and it took two seasons to capture enough photons for sufficient resolution. Capturing the accretion disk of the Cygnus X-1 black hole required more pictures using with OIII narrowband filters than usual to make it visible. Tulip Nebula (SH2-101): HII region emission nebula, located 6000 light-years away from Earth. Cygnus X-1 black hole’s relativistic jet appears as a blue ellipse in the image. Cygnus X-1 and HD226868 form a binary system, with the former being a 14-15 solar mass black hole with a diameter of 50 km, and the latter being a 15-17 solar mass blue giant, orbiting around the black hole with a period of 5.6 days. The two objects orbit each other at a distance of only 40 times the Sun’s radius. The relativistic jet shockwave is observed in the image, appearing as a blue arc.
The image was taken using narrowband filters, a monochrome and a colour camera. Total exposure time 31 hours Summer of 2022 and 2023, Alsómocsolád, Hungary. Ha 14.5h OIII 15h RGB 1h
Lorand – Hungary
Title of your Astro photo: Iris Nebula
Equipment used: Astro-Physics 206EDF Starfire, Fornax Mounts 150, ZWO ASI533MM Pro, Astronomik LRGB
Imaging Target: NGC 7023
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Nebulosity, Registar, PS
Soumyadeep – India
Title of your Astro photo: Upside Down
Equipment used: Sony A7iii, Zeiss Batis 40mm f/2
Imaging Target: Wide-field view of Sagittarius Arm
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Post-processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop (exposure, saturation and local adjustments)
Vishal – India
Title of your Astro photo: “Moon’s Harsh Beauty: Traversing its Rugged Landscapes”
Equipment used: Celestron 6SCT+ZWO 178MC+Baader 1.3x HD Barlow + iOptron MiniTower Mount
Imaging Target: Moon
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Stacked 70% frames from total 2690 frames in Autostakkert-4, Wavelets in RegiStax, and sharpening in Photoshop.
Simone – Italy
Title of your Astro photo: The Witch’s Gaze
Equipment used: William Optics RedCat 51 II – ZWO ASI2600MM Pro – Sky-Watcher EQ6 – Antlia EDGE H-alpha 4.5nm 2″ · Antlia Luminance 2″ · Antlia V-Pro Blue 2″ · Antlia V-Pro Green 2″ · Antlia V-Pro Red 2″
Imaging Target: IC2118 & Rigel
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Processed on pixinsight – stacking, dynamic background extraction, denois, curves transformation, star reduction.
Marcin R – Poland
Title of your Astro photo: Colours of the Milky Way
Equipment used: Canon 6D mod, Sigma Art 50 mm f1.4 (f2.8), SWSA
Imaging Target: Center of the Milky Way Galaxy with colourful Rho and Zeta Ophiuchi.
Digital processing methods employed (if any): APP, Pixinsight, Photoshop
Other information: Lights: 65×60, ISO 1600, 35xDarks, 50Bias, 30Flats.
Marcin Z Poland
Title of your Astro photo: Desert Bloom
Equipment used: Nikon D810
Imaging Target: Milky Way core
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Photoshop
Josep –Spain
Title of your Astro photo: Sculpted by starlight
Equipment used: Takahashi epsilon 130 + cem40 + qhy268mc + idas nbz
Imaging Target: horse head nebula
Digital processing methods employed (if any): 8×600” stacked in astropixel processor, processed with pixinsight and lightroom.
Amrit 1 – Trinidad and Tobago
Title of your Astrophoto: Sunspot AR3590 in White light
Equipment used: Optical tube: Celestron 9.25 schmidt cassegrain telescope, Barlow: Vivitar 3X teleconverter, Camera: Player One Mars-M, Solar Filter: Baader 5.0 240mm White light filter, Mount: Orion Atlas Pro Mount
Imaging target: Sun
Digital processing methods employed (If any): 1) Captured a on minute solar capture in FireCapture, 2) Stacked in Autostakkert 4, 3) Wavelets in Registax 6, 4) Crop of stacking border done in InfranView
Amrit2 – Trinidad and Tobago
Title of your Astrophoto: The Stormy Skies of Jupiter
Equipment used: Optical tube: Celestron 9.25 Schmidt cassegrain telescope, Barlow: Vivitar 3X teleconverter, Camera: Player One Uranus-C, Mount: Orion Atlas Pro Mount
Imaging target: Jupiter
Digital processing methods employed (If any): The captures of 5 videos were stacked in Autostakkert 3, Wavelets applied in Registax 6. These were brought into WinJUPOS 12 and de-rotated. Image was RGB re-Aligned in Registax 6
Kartik – United Kingdom
Title of your Astro photo: Cygnus Loop in Duo-Narrowband
Equipment used: Nikon D750 (astromodified), Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM lens, STC Optics Duo-Narrowband Filter (clip-in), Skywatcher Star-Adventurer 2i. EXIF: 49 images of 120 seconds exposure each at f/5.6 and ISO 1000 at 300mm with Dark and Flat calibration frames.
Imaging Target: Cygnus Loop (Sharpless 103)
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Images stacked in ASTAP and processed in Pixinsight. Final processing completed in Adobe Photoshop.
Bill – USA
Title of your Astro photo: Vibrant Triangulum
Equipment used: Askar V @600mm, AM5, ASIAIR Plus, ZWO AEF, ASI2600MC Pro, Askar guide Scope with ASI120mm mini, Optilong L-Extreme for narrowband data.
Imaging Target: M33, Triangulum Galaxy
Digital processing methods employed (if any): PixInsight
Julian USA
Title of your Astro photo: New-born Stars of the Lagoon Nebula
Equipment used: 10″ F4.8 Orion Optics Newtonian, ASI2600MM camera with ZWO SHOLRGB filters, Orion Atlas Pro mount
Imaging Target: Messier 8
Digital processing methods employed (if any): Pixinsight for most processing including BlurXterminator, DBE, Stretch, etc. and Photoshop for final adjustments
All are spectacular! Which one is your favourite? Vote on the panel below:
https://www.npae.net/2024-northern-hemisphere-public-vote/
Wonderful job done Vishal. Best wishes, Chhavi
Thanks a lot!
Wow nice pic from vishal
Mesmerizing snap Vikas
Thanks a lot
Amazing Image
Thanks Vijay
Thanks a lot
Thanks so much
Excellent!! pic, Vishal. All the very best to you.
Best of Luck Vishal
Nice photo vishal bhai
Thanks 👍🏻
🙂
Vishal captures very realistic and beautiful images of the sky … He is best in his work and dedicated to his work.
Excellent
Great pic Vishal!
Selected image is superb
Thanks so much Tina!
👍🏻
Vishal bhai Voted for You
And Pic Is Amazing
Al the Best
Very Good Pic everyone.
May the best person win
Nice One
The winner is Vishal 💥💥
Congratulations vishal
Stay blessed
Lovely pictures 🌕 Vishal bhai
Thanks so much
India is on the moon 🇮🇳
Yeah correct…India is on the Moon again 🙏🏻😊 Thanks!!
Good work
Very nice And Clear picture by Vishal from India
Really it’s a Harsh Beauty of Moon 🌙 🌚
Vishal bhaiya rocks
Awesome take Vishal !
Thank you for including me among the 16 finalists and congratulations to all the authors
Awesome
Superior image captured Vishal. Love the detailing and sharpness. Post more photos. Cheers. 🪬🍾🌒🌓🌔🌕
Beauty post Josep Spain 👌🏻💫
Thanks so much Salil
Wonderful pictures!
Vishal, your picture is amazing. It looks super close
Thanks Vidisha
A perfect Click by Mr Vishal from India
Congratulations in Advance Vishal Bhaiya
Appreciate your comment. Thanks a lot!
Good Job Vishal !!!
Thank you so much!
Congratulations vishal
Stay blessed
Thanks so much!
God job Vishal
Thanks a lot!!
Super Image captured, Congratulations in advance.
Thanks!!
Good job vishal bhai it’s a nice beautiful image of moon 🌙
Thanks so much!
Great job Done by Vishal sharma. Excellent stunning 🤩
Awesome job, all the best..👍. Stay blessed
vishal moon pictures is very cool
Wonderful job Vishal, keep it up
Wish you a Good luck Vishal you are already a winner 🏆 keep up the good work Champion 🏆
Awesome!
Wonderful Job..keep it up and all the best!!
Vishal bro wish u good luck bro and good work👍👍👍
Amazing pic
Best wishes 👍
Well done Vishal..best pic