BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
49x 300s red
44x 300s green
48x 300s blue
70x 600s luminance
Total integration 11 hours 40 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik UHC, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Imaged on 6 nights between September 9 and September 18, 2018.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
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, color calibration, reduce noise, LRGB combination, histogram stretch, HDR multiscale transform, curves.
49x 300s red
44x 300s green
48x 300s blue
70x 600s luminance
Total integration 11 hours 40 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik UHC, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Imaged on 6 nights between September 9 and September 18, 2018.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
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, color calibration, reduce noise, LRGB combination, histogram stretch, HDR multiscale transform, curves.