BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
72x 300s Luminance
16x 300s Red
15x 300s Green
17x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
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 4 nights between 24th March to 10th April 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, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.
72x 300s Luminance
16x 300s Red
15x 300s Green
17x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
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 4 nights between 24th March to 10th April 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, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.