BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
15x 25s red
19x 300s red
12x 45s green
17x 300s green
12x 45s blue
17x 300s blue
Total integration 4 hours 25 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
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:
Imaged on a single night, full moon, 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, HDR combination, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, reduce noise, RGB combination, background neutralization, histogram stretch, HDM multiscale transform, curves.
15x 25s red
19x 300s red
12x 45s green
17x 300s green
12x 45s blue
17x 300s blue
Total integration 4 hours 25 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
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:
Imaged on a single night, full moon, 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, HDR combination, dynamic background extraction, color calibration, reduce noise, RGB combination, background neutralization, histogram stretch, HDM multiscale transform, curves.