BEHIND THE IMAGE
Notes from the session
Image:
56x 180s Luminance
53x 180s Red
51x 180s Green
45x 180s Blue
41x 240s 6nm H-α
Total integration 13 hours. Focal length: 520mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED with 0.85x reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik Luminance and 6nm H-α filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 4 nights between 12th February to 14th March 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, dymanic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, pixelmath add H-α to luminance and red channels, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.
56x 180s Luminance
53x 180s Red
51x 180s Green
45x 180s Blue
41x 240s 6nm H-α
Total integration 13 hours. Focal length: 520mm
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED with 0.85x reducer
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
Astronomik Luminance and 6nm H-α filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight ONAG
Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
Exposed over 4 nights between 12th February to 14th March 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, dymanic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, pixelmath add H-α to luminance and red channels, HDR multiscale transform, histogram, curves, crop.