BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
The hydrogen signal has been attenuated to show it's interaction with the SII and OIII clouds. Although it is invisible to the naked eye, if visible this cloud would be mostly deep red, with some blue around the open star cluster NGC 6193 in the centre of the image. This cloud complex is also known as the fighting dragons of Ara.
This image is also my first attempt at using PixInsight for the entire data processing session.
Image:
81x 600s Sulphur-II 6nm
73x 600s Hydrogen-alpha 6nm
90x 600s Oxygen-III 6nm
Total integration 40 hours 40 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Hα, OIII, SII filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 6 nights.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibration, sub-frame analysis, registration, integration, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, masked stretch, linear fit, contrast, RGB combination, background neutralisation, SCNR green, deconvolution, color balance, saturation, unsharp mask.
This image is also my first attempt at using PixInsight for the entire data processing session.
Image:
81x 600s Sulphur-II 6nm
73x 600s Hydrogen-alpha 6nm
90x 600s Oxygen-III 6nm
Total integration 40 hours 40 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Hα, OIII, SII filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 6 nights.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibration, sub-frame analysis, registration, integration, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, masked stretch, linear fit, contrast, RGB combination, background neutralisation, SCNR green, deconvolution, color balance, saturation, unsharp mask.