BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image Integration:
34x 120s Luminance
35x 240s Luminance
36x 240s Red
41x 240s Green
40x 240s Blue
Total exposure 11 hours 56 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron C11 EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over four nights, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: HDR combination, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, noise reduction, histogram, curves, color calibration, local histogram equalization.
34x 120s Luminance
35x 240s Luminance
36x 240s Red
41x 240s Green
40x 240s Blue
Total exposure 11 hours 56 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron C11 EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over four nights, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: HDR combination, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, noise reduction, histogram, curves, color calibration, local histogram equalization.