BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
69x 180s 6nm S-II
65x 180s 6nm H-α
62x 180s 6nm O-III
Total integration 9.8 hours.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm narrowband filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
Starlight Instruments On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over 4 nights between 17th and 24th October 2020.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, pixelmath SHO combination, histogram stretch, curves, HDR multiscale transform, local histogram equalization.
69x 180s 6nm S-II
65x 180s 6nm H-α
62x 180s 6nm O-III
Total integration 9.8 hours.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm narrowband filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
Starlight Instruments On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over 4 nights between 17th and 24th October 2020.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, pixelmath SHO combination, histogram stretch, curves, HDR multiscale transform, local histogram equalization.