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First Ever Image of The Month Nov.2025
Image By: Dr. Suhaib Ahmed
This mystical beauty of Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cephus Constellation has been awarded as the first ever Image of The Month for Sky Deep Moments.
Dr. Suhaib Ahmed is a seasoned Astrophotographer who has shown his passion growing within very short period of time.
Reward: Thank you Dr. Suhaib Ahmed for showing up the world this great Image of yours with extraordinary sharpness and details. Sky Deep is proudly presenting you a ZWO Dual Band 1.25" Filter that is used with ZWO Cooled Color Cameras.
Runner Up Image of The Month Nov.2025
Image By: Muhammad Ibraheem
This mesmerizing wide-field Image covering M45 The Pleaides to NGC 1499 California Nebula taken by an unmoded DSLR Camera and modest IOptron Tracker is proven to be beating all the high grade Equipment and could easily have been a winner.
Muhammad Ibraheem is a young Astrophotographer wandering under the wilderness of dark skies to catch vast areas of Skies with his modest Equipment showing zeal and courage to beat all the odds.
Reward: Thank you @Ibraheem for showcasing your extraordinary work here. We proudly present you an Optolong Clip-in Dual Band Filter from Sky Deep Co. to fit over the sensor of your DSLR and bring out more hidden gems from Dark Skies.
Rare Moments on The Sun
Image by: Roshaan Nadeem
Description: A sudden surge in the Solar activity was captured at IST Observatory during one hour of Video Imaging.
Equipment: Lunt Halpha Specialized Telescoe on Celestron CGX Mount
Location: Islamabad
Date: November 4th week, 2025
The Window to Universe
Image by: Sibtain Shah
Description: The pic was taken using 16 second exposure time, f/1.7 aperture, 6.9mm focal length at an ISO of 2578.
Technique: He took the picture by placing the phone against the airplane window. The phone was kept stable by closing the window shutter behind the phone in order to keep it stable.
Equipment: This picture was taken from an airplane using the Google Pixel 8 smartphone.
Location: This was taken flying near Turbat, Pakistan under pure bortle 1 skies while plane was cruising at 35,000ft. https://maps.app.goo.gl/sM7Sp7bGHLvnrW7B9
Date: May 27, 2025
M51 Whirlpool Galaxy
Image by: Dr. Suhaib Ahmed
Description: Ths tunning image of M51 is merger of two galaxies and in this frame you can see multiple Galaxies in background. The processing of image is so well done that normally these back ground galaxies and faint dust around M51 is washed away but Dr. Suhaib has preserved it beautifully.
Equipment: Celestron C11, ZWO 294mm pro, ASIair+ ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, Mini-guide, 224mc, ZWO AM5, Antlia LRGB & Ha filters, Total integration of 8 hours. Software: PixInsight
Location: Westridge-1, Rawalpindi
Date: May, 2025
M45 The Pleaides Cluster
Image by: Shoaib Usman Banday
Description: He specially travelled to a dark sky in November to catch the jewel of Night sky the famous Pleaides Cluster aka Seven Sisters, Main data of Luminance Channel was captured in Chakri whole night through whereas RGB data collected in Lahore so it became a combo of Dark skies and light polluted skies. His craftmanship is such to stack the two and bring out this beauty. Data Taken from :Chakri , L channel , 300s x 62Lahore, RGB , 60s x 40 each
Equipment: ZWO AM5N, ZWO ASI1600mmPro, ZWO LRGB, ZWO ASIAIR Pro, ZWO EFW, ZWO EAF, ZWO 120mm mini Guidecam Astrotech At60Ed Scope
Location: Chakri, Lahore
Date: November 23rd, 2025
NGC 1501 Oyster Nebula (A Luminous Pearl in the Cosmic Ocean)
Image by: Mujtaba Hussain Shah
Description: Drifting in the galactic tide, this celestial jewellery (NGC 1501), also known as the Oyster Nebula, is a complex planetary nebula, located roughly 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The intricate, translucent beauty of the Oyster Nebula isn't a place where stars are born, but rather where one is fading away. He processed this celestial opal in a classic HOO palette to emphasize the structural contrast between the hot Oxygen core and the surrounding Hydrogen. At the center lies a pulsating "Wolf-Rayet" star that is shedding its outer layers into space, creating these intricate, bubble-like shells of gas. It was once a sun-like star that reached the end of its life and blasted its outer layers into space.
Equipment: ZWO narrowband filters (Ha and OIII) with ZWO ASI533MM Pro monochrome camera cooled at -10C paired with 2032mm Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain telescope on a ZWO AM5N Harmonic Drive EQ mount automated by ZWO ASIAIR Plus 256GB
Location: Bortle 9 scale of Lahore - Pakistan.
Date: November 23rd, 2025
M33 Triangulum Galaxy
Image by: Syed Mohib Talib Mehdi
Description: A 20 Years Old Young Amatuer Astrophotographer is telling The Tale of The Triangulum Galaxy - 2.7 Million Light Years Away From Earth . One of the Closet Nearly Perfect Spiral Galaxy from our Home The Milky Way, Third Largest Member of our Local Galactic Group After Milky way and Andromeda Galaxy.
Equipment: Canon EOS 600D
Canon FD 135mm Lens f/2
Ioptron SkyTracker Mount
Data: 45x90s Exposures at ISO 400
Total Integration of 1 Hour and 2 Minutes
Calibration Frames : 30 Dark 45 Flat and 30 Bias Frames
Stacked and Processed Using Siril + PreProcessed
Location: Bortle 7 skies of Islamabad, Pakistan
Dates: 7 Good Nights of December 2025
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
Image by: Abdullah Aleem
Description: Abdullah has shown his genius by making a DIY Go To Mount himself and used ordinary equipment for bringing out beauty under light polluted skies. Kudos to young Man who has proved that it is the will to capture Universe that prevails rather a high tech Equipment.
Data: Integration of 30"x220 frames 20"x220 frames 40"x90 frames Total 4 hours of data. Software used :DeepSkyStacker, Siril for Processing, Lightroom for denoising and final edits.30% data collected on bad nights without Moon whereas 70% captured on good nights with about 20-30% Moon illumination
Equipment: Nikon D5600 (Stock)Nikkor 55-300mm F4.5-F5.6 ED VR lens operated at 300mm F5.6 DIY Homemade Harmonic Drive Mount
Location: Bortle 8 Rawalpindi Date: December, 2025
M31 The Grandeur of Andromeda
Image by: Roshaan Bukhari
Description: Look at the power of modern day Astronomy Equipment, seasoned skills of Astroimager when combined with a dark sky will yield a breath-taking image like this of our neighboring Galaxy. He specially travelled to a dark sky in cold November night and planned his Gadget to capture the marvel of Night Sky for 2.5 hours.
Equipment: ZWO Seestar S30
Location: Chakri, Lahore
Date: November 23rd, 2025
The Moon Composite Image
Image by: Abbass Haider
Description: He is a 16 year old mobile phone photographer who made this composite of three different images. The airplane was shot in July 2025, Moon Shot was captured on LAST's most recent event on 29 November and Clouds image is from 30th November. This image is not part of Competition but has been placed to encourage the young Photographer.
Equipment: Google pixel 6 pro
Location: Lahore
Date: November 29th, 2025
The Night Trails
Image by: Saeed Abbassi
Description: Full moon rising, running clouds and rising stars All are trailed to compose a painting like image.
Equipment: Mi 11 Ultra Mobile Phone
Location: Kandiaro, Sindh
Date: December 6th, 2025
The Geminid Shower
Image by: Muhammad Shaheer
Description: This is ultra wide shot of winter arm of milky way during the peak night of Geminid Showers.
He caught this shot with great patience and planning. This photo is a stack of 180 frames, where one frames was shot at 15s, F3.5, ISO 3200. To counteract the lens optical errors he also shot 20 darks, 10 flats and 10 bias frames .All done on a static tripod and manual tracking.
A lonely night spent under the stars where winter sears through the skin ! "
Equipment: Canon 250D and Canon 18-55mm kit lens
Location: Nawabshah, Sindh
Date: December 14th, 2025
NOAA-18 Satellite Image
Image by: Asharib Nomani
Description: Tuned the walkie-talkie to the NOAA APT frequency. Recorded passes from the rooftop at 2 AM to 4 AM over multiple nights. Audio was captured using only my phone's recorder, which caused high noise. Saved each attempt with random file names. My 8th recording, named "Last Try", finally decoded successfully. Cleaned and trimmed the audio using Audacity. Processed and decoded the APT audio into an image using WXtoIMG.
Personal Notes: I spent several nights waiting for passes; missing one meant waiting hours for the next. Despite many failed attempts due to noisy audio, phone issues, and signal drops, the 8th attempt finally worked...Alhamdulillah.
My father would often check on me at night and jokingly say:
"Dhayaan se... kahin satellite ki jagah aliens na Ajaen 😂"
Equipment: Baofeng UV-82 walkie-talkie (to receive the APT signal). Android phone with a simple voice-recording app. Laptop (for processing and decoding). Homemade V-Dipole antenna made with metal rods at 120° (first attempt, unsuccessful)
Final working setup: Baofeng UV-82 + phone recorder
Location: Lahore
Date: April 20~23rd, 2025
Edge of The Moon
Image by: Abdullah Irfan
Description: It took 50 tries with hand held mobile phone to capture this sharp image of Moon through his telescope eyepiece.
Equipment: Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT & Mobile Phone
Location: Lahore
Date: December 8th, 2025