BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Shooting between trees and through clouds, over 5 nights, the galaxy slowly resolved into the image presented. There are various shells surrounding the galaxy that are most likely from mergers and interactions with other galaxies. The pink regions show star forming nebulae, while the blue regions show young, blue stars.
Image Integration:
51x 240s Luminance
31x 240s Red
27x 240s Green
26x 240s Blue
Total exposure 9 hours.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over five nights, some cloud, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: Rotate, crop, deconvolution, reduce noise, shrink stars, stretch, HDR median transform, local histogram equalistion, LRGB combination, curves, saturation.
Photoshop CC: Complex mask generation, caption, repair chromatic aberration on larger stars, convert to .png.
Image Integration:
51x 240s Luminance
31x 240s Red
27x 240s Green
26x 240s Blue
Total exposure 9 hours.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over five nights, some cloud, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: Rotate, crop, deconvolution, reduce noise, shrink stars, stretch, HDR median transform, local histogram equalistion, LRGB combination, curves, saturation.
Photoshop CC: Complex mask generation, caption, repair chromatic aberration on larger stars, convert to .png.