BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Instead, the extremely faint dusty nebula is incredibly difficult to capture and process, almost indistinguishable on an individual exposure. There are very few published images of this nebula, and additional information is also scarce.
Image:
76x 742s Luminance
46x 240s Red
45x 240s Green
70x 240s Blue
Total integration 19.6 hours. Focal length: 600mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik CLSCCD 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 7 nights between 21st August to 15th September 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, deconvolution, noise reduction, LRGB combination, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, local histogram equalization, crop.
Image:
76x 742s Luminance
46x 240s Red
45x 240s Green
70x 240s Blue
Total integration 19.6 hours. Focal length: 600mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik CLSCCD 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 7 nights between 21st August to 15th September 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, deconvolution, noise reduction, LRGB combination, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, local histogram equalization, crop.