BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
45x 300s Luminance
27x 300s Red
32x 300s Green
26x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours 50 minutes. Focal length: 600mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 5 nights between 29th May 2019 and 20th June 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, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.
45x 300s Luminance
27x 300s Red
32x 300s Green
26x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours 50 minutes. Focal length: 600mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 5 nights between 29th May 2019 and 20th June 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, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.