BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
45x 300s Luminance
35x 150s Red
36x 150s Green
34x 150s Blue
33x 600s H-alpha
52x 300s Sulfur-II
Total exposure 17 hours 48 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ 2c Luminance, Deep Sky RGB, 6nm H-alpha, 6nm SII filters
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 5 nights, new 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.
Pixinsight 1.8: Crop, deconvolution, TGV denoise, MMT denoise, MT star reduction, histogram stretch, local histogram enhancement, MLT sharpen, linear fit RGB, color calibration, pixel math to add HII to luminance, LRGB combination, pixel math to add SII to blue channel, saturation.
45x 300s Luminance
35x 150s Red
36x 150s Green
34x 150s Blue
33x 600s H-alpha
52x 300s Sulfur-II
Total exposure 17 hours 48 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Typ 2c Luminance, Deep Sky RGB, 6nm H-alpha, 6nm SII filters
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 5 nights, new 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.
Pixinsight 1.8: Crop, deconvolution, TGV denoise, MMT denoise, MT star reduction, histogram stretch, local histogram enhancement, MLT sharpen, linear fit RGB, color calibration, pixel math to add HII to luminance, LRGB combination, pixel math to add SII to blue channel, saturation.