BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
47x 600s Ha bin2x2
50x 600s OIII bin2x2
22x 60s Red bin1x1
32x 60s Green bin1x1
20x 60s Blue bin1x1
Total exposure 17 hours 24 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" Edge HD
Celestrong 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm OII, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
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 10 nights, 0% to 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, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Shadows/highlights, combine Ha+OII+RGB, noise reduction, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.
47x 600s Ha bin2x2
50x 600s OIII bin2x2
22x 60s Red bin1x1
32x 60s Green bin1x1
20x 60s Blue bin1x1
Total exposure 17 hours 24 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" Edge HD
Celestrong 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm Ha, 6nm OII, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
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 10 nights, 0% to 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, combine RGB.
Photoshop CC: Shadows/highlights, combine Ha+OII+RGB, noise reduction, curves, adjust colour balance, saturation, crop.