BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
My goal was to tease out as much of the extremely dim outer structure as possible.
Image:
62x 300s Luminance
43x 300s Red
37x 300s Green
43x 300s Blue
Total integration 15 hours. Focal length: 840mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD Luminance filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 3 nights between 15th August to 27th August 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.
Image:
62x 300s Luminance
43x 300s Red
37x 300s Green
43x 300s Blue
Total integration 15 hours. Focal length: 840mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Esprit 120
Skywatcher EQ8Rh Pro mount
ZWO ASI533 Camera @ -10°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD Luminance filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 3 nights between 15th August to 27th August 2025
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, spectrophotometric flux calibration, spectrophotometric colour calibration, histogram, curves.