Mars and Pluto Conjunction
02-May-2018
For a period of three mostly cloudy nights, the planet Mars and Pluto were within 1.5 degrees of each other.
Image Integration:
- 3x 300s Red
- 3x 300s Green
- 3x 300s Blue
- 3x 30s Red
- 3x 30s Green
- 3x 30s Blue
Total exposure 50 minutes.
Hardware:
- Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
- Skywatcher 0.85x focal reducer
- SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-wsg Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik Typ2 RGB filters
- ZWO ASI-290MM guide camera
Location:
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
- Captured with The SkyX Pro
- Guiding with PHD2
- CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
- PixInsight: HDR composition, noise reduction, linear fit, RGB combination, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, masked stretch, saturation.
- Photoshop CC: Inset, labels.