BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
108x 300s Luminance
53x 300s Red
46x 300s Green
112x 300s Blue
Total integration 26 hours, 35 minutes. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 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 to 27th April 2020
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, curves, crop.
108x 300s Luminance
53x 300s Red
46x 300s Green
112x 300s Blue
Total integration 26 hours, 35 minutes. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 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 to 27th April 2020
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, curves, crop.