Spiral Galaxy NGC2835
16-Feb-2018
NGC2835 is a small, faint spiral galaxy in the Hydra constellation. This is a test shot through a newly acquired GSO RC8 carbon fibre astrograph.
Image Integration:
- 31x 360s Light Pollution
- 13x 360s Red
- 11x 360s Green
- 9x 360s Blue
Total exposure 6 hours 24 minutes.
Hardware:
- GSO RC8 carbon fibre astrograph
- SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik CLS-CCD & Deep Sky RGB filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Starlight Xpress Active Optics
- Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
- Imaged over two nights, new moon, 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: Dynamic background extraction, linear fit, deconvolution, denoise, shrink stars, combine LRGB, color calibration, stretch, curves, saturation.