BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
28x 900s luminance
28x 450s red
22x 450s green
25x 450s blue
Total integration 16 hours 23 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik UHC, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Imaged on 6 nights between October 9 and November 11, 2018.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, evaluate sub-frames, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, color calibration, reduce noise, LRGB combination, histogram stretch, HDR multiscale transform, curves.
28x 900s luminance
28x 450s red
22x 450s green
25x 450s blue
Total integration 16 hours 23 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik UHC, deep sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Imaged on 6 nights between October 9 and November 11, 2018.
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight: Calibrate, evaluate sub-frames, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, deconvolution, color calibration, reduce noise, LRGB combination, histogram stretch, HDR multiscale transform, curves.