BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Also of note is the interesting hexagonal ring around NGC 6771. Elliptical galaxy IC 4842 is shown in the bottom-left of the frame. There are many other background galaxies in the deep sky image, some of which are shown below.
Image:
102x 300s luminance
33x 300s red
31x 300s green
28x 300s blue
Total integration 16 hours 10 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, light deconvolution, noise reduction, stretch, curves.
Image:
102x 300s luminance
33x 300s red
31x 300s green
28x 300s blue
Total integration 16 hours 10 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, light deconvolution, noise reduction, stretch, curves.