BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
The galaxy is shown illuminated by stray light from a bright star just outside the field of view
Image:
39x 600s luminance
16x 300s red
20x 300s green
22x 300s blue
Total integration 11 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 3 nights. New Moon.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, reduce noise, light deconvolution, non-linear stretch, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, curves.
Image:
39x 600s luminance
16x 300s red
20x 300s green
22x 300s blue
Total integration 11 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 3 nights. New Moon.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, reduce noise, light deconvolution, non-linear stretch, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, curves.