BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
25x 120s Light pollution filter as luminance bin1x1
12x 120s Red bin1x1
12x 120s Green bin1x1
13x 120s Blue bin1x1
Total exposure 2 hours 4 minutes.
Hardware:
GSO 10" f/4 newtonian
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Teleview Paracorr II field flattener
Astronomik Typ2 LP & RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged during full moon.
Software:
CCD Autopilot 5
The Sky X Professional Edition
FocusMax V4
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, remove gradients, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Combine LP+RGB, noise reduction, curves, saturation, crop.
25x 120s Light pollution filter as luminance bin1x1
12x 120s Red bin1x1
12x 120s Green bin1x1
13x 120s Blue bin1x1
Total exposure 2 hours 4 minutes.
Hardware:
GSO 10" f/4 newtonian
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Teleview Paracorr II field flattener
Astronomik Typ2 LP & RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged during full moon.
Software:
CCD Autopilot 5
The Sky X Professional Edition
FocusMax V4
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, remove gradients, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Combine LP+RGB, noise reduction, curves, saturation, crop.