BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
60x 600s Luminance bin1x1
35x 300s Red bin2x2
20x 300s Green bin2x2
24x 300s Blue bin2x2
Total exposure 16 hours 35 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 LRGB 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, 50% 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, deconvolution, remove gradients, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Shadows/highlights, combine L+RGB, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.
60x 600s Luminance bin1x1
35x 300s Red bin2x2
20x 300s Green bin2x2
24x 300s Blue bin2x2
Total exposure 16 hours 35 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ2 LRGB 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, 50% 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, deconvolution, remove gradients, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Shadows/highlights, combine L+RGB, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.