BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
91x 300s Luminance
18x 300s Red
13x 300s Green
14x 300s Blue
Total exposure 11 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ 2c Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 5 nights, new moon.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 9
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
Pixinsight 1.8: Crop, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, TGV denoise, MMT denoise, MT star reduction, histogram stretch, local histogram enhancement, HDR multiscale transform, ATrous wavelet transform, linear fit RGB, background neutralisation, color calibration, SCNR, LRGB combination, saturation.
91x 300s Luminance
18x 300s Red
13x 300s Green
14x 300s Blue
Total exposure 11 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ 2c Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 5 nights, new moon.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 9
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
Pixinsight 1.8: Crop, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, TGV denoise, MMT denoise, MT star reduction, histogram stretch, local histogram enhancement, HDR multiscale transform, ATrous wavelet transform, linear fit RGB, background neutralisation, color calibration, SCNR, LRGB combination, saturation.