BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
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.
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.