BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image Integration:
43x 600s Hydrogen-alpha
42x 600s Sulfur-II
54x 600s Oxygen-III
Total exposure 23 hours 10 minutes.
Hardware:
GSO RC8 carbon fibre astrograph
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm SII, 6nm OIII
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over five nights, 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: Linear fit, denoise, deconvolution, pixelmath combine SHO, background neutralization, histogram, curves, local histogram equalization, shrink stars, curves.
43x 600s Hydrogen-alpha
42x 600s Sulfur-II
54x 600s Oxygen-III
Total exposure 23 hours 10 minutes.
Hardware:
GSO RC8 carbon fibre astrograph
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm SII, 6nm OIII
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over five nights, 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: Linear fit, denoise, deconvolution, pixelmath combine SHO, background neutralization, histogram, curves, local histogram equalization, shrink stars, curves.