BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image Integration:
73x 300s Luminance
20x 300s Red
30x 300s Green
27x 300s Blue
Total exposure 12 hours 30 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron C11 EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over two nights, high humidity. 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: Crop, deconvolution, dynamic backgroup extraction, noise reduction, star size reduction, LRGB combination, background neutralization, color calibration, curves, histogram.
73x 300s Luminance
20x 300s Red
30x 300s Green
27x 300s Blue
Total exposure 12 hours 30 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron C11 EdgeHD
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
Imaged over two nights, high humidity. 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: Crop, deconvolution, dynamic backgroup extraction, noise reduction, star size reduction, LRGB combination, background neutralization, color calibration, curves, histogram.