BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Elliptal galaxy NGC 467 and a number of distant galaxies are annotated below.
Image:
52x300s + 15x90s Lum
31x300s + 7x90s Red
26x300s + 8x90s Green
25x300s + 6x90s Blue
Total integration 12 hours, 4 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
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 4th October and 26th October 2019.
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 combination, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, HDR multiscale transform, curves, crop.
Image:
52x300s + 15x90s Lum
31x300s + 7x90s Red
26x300s + 8x90s Green
25x300s + 6x90s Blue
Total integration 12 hours, 4 minutes.
Hardware:
Celestron 11" EdgeHD
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Celestron EdgeHD 0.7x reducer
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 4th October and 26th October 2019.
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 combination, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, histogram, HDR multiscale transform, curves, crop.