BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
45x 300s CLS-CCD light pollution filter
78x 300s Red
78x 300s Green
30x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours 15 minutes. Focal length: 1980mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 8 nights between 29th February 2019 and 29th March 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, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, masked stretch, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.
45x 300s CLS-CCD light pollution filter
78x 300s Red
78x 300s Green
30x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours 15 minutes. Focal length: 1980mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 8 nights between 29th February 2019 and 29th March 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, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, masked stretch, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.