BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
68x 300s Luminance (CLS-CCD light pollution filter)
45x 300s Red
41x 300s Green
56x 300s Blue
Total integration 17.5 hours. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 11" EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 5 nights between 7th August to 11th August 2020
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, automatic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.
68x 300s Luminance (CLS-CCD light pollution filter)
45x 300s Red
41x 300s Green
56x 300s Blue
Total integration 17.5 hours. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 11" EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 5 nights between 7th August to 11th August 2020
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, automatic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.