BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
18x 300s Red
25x 300s Green
46x 240s Blue
68x 360s Hα
Total exposure 13 hours 27 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Deep Sky RGB, 6nm Hα filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
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: Deconvolution, denoise, pixelmath combine Hα + blue as luminance, MT star reduction, MMT sharpen, histogram & curves stretch, local histogram equalization, color saturation.
18x 300s Red
25x 300s Green
46x 240s Blue
68x 360s Hα
Total exposure 13 hours 27 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Deep Sky RGB, 6nm Hα filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
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: Deconvolution, denoise, pixelmath combine Hα + blue as luminance, MT star reduction, MMT sharpen, histogram & curves stretch, local histogram equalization, color saturation.