BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
103x 300s Luminance
45x 300s Red
43x 300s Green
47x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours, 50 minutes. Focal length: 2800mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
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 19th April to 11th May 2021
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, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.
103x 300s Luminance
45x 300s Red
43x 300s Green
47x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours, 50 minutes. Focal length: 2800mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8-Rh Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
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 19th April to 11th May 2021
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, HDR multiscale transform, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, curves, crop.