Spiral Galaxy IC5267
25-Oct-2019
IC 5267 (left) is a spiral galaxy 79 million light years away.
Image:
- 93x 300s Luminance
- 32x 300s Red
- 29x 300s Green
- 29x 300s Blue
Total integration 15 hours, 15 minutes.
Hardware:
- Celestron 11&qoute; EdgeHD
- Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
- Astrodon LRGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight ONAG
- Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
- Exposed over 6 nights between 28th September and 4th October 2019.
- 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, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, HDR multiscale transform, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.