BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
56x 600s LP as Luminance bin1x1
23x 600s Red bin1x1
23x 600s Green bin1x1
28x 600s Blue bin1x1
50x 300s H-alpha bin2x2
Total exposure 25 hours 50 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 LRGB, 6nm Ha filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 guide camera
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 9 nights.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with TheSkyX Professional
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: combine L+RGB+Ha, flatten background, high pass filter, unsharp mask, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.
56x 600s LP as Luminance bin1x1
23x 600s Red bin1x1
23x 600s Green bin1x1
28x 600s Blue bin1x1
50x 300s H-alpha bin2x2
Total exposure 25 hours 50 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 LRGB, 6nm Ha filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 guide camera
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Imaged over 9 nights.
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with TheSkyX Professional
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
FocusLock live focusing
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: combine L+RGB+Ha, flatten background, high pass filter, unsharp mask, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.