furgle
21-01-2018, 07:32 PM
Just another rosette
**Image:**
* 18x 300s Red
* 25x 300s Green
* 46x 240s Blue
* 68x 360s Hα
Total exposure 13 hours 27 minutes.
Better resolution here (http://observatory.site/astrophotography/Rosette_Nebula/Rosette_Nebula_20180121.html)
**Hardware:**
* Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
* SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
* QSI 683-ws Camera @ -15°C
* Astronomik Deep Sky RGB, 6nm Hα filters
* Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
* Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
**Location:**
* Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
**Software:**
* Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
* Captured with AstroArt 6
* Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
* CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
* CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
* PixInsight: Deconvolution, denoise, pixelmath combine Hα + blue as luminance, MT star reduction, MMT sharpen, histogram & curves stretch, local histogram equalization, color saturation.
**Image:**
* 18x 300s Red
* 25x 300s Green
* 46x 240s Blue
* 68x 360s Hα
Total exposure 13 hours 27 minutes.
Better resolution here (http://observatory.site/astrophotography/Rosette_Nebula/Rosette_Nebula_20180121.html)
**Hardware:**
* Skywatcher Black Diamond ED80
* SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
* QSI 683-ws Camera @ -15°C
* Astronomik Deep Sky RGB, 6nm Hα filters
* Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
* Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
**Location:**
* Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
**Software:**
* Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
* Captured with AstroArt 6
* Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
* CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
* CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
* PixInsight: Deconvolution, denoise, pixelmath combine Hα + blue as luminance, MT star reduction, MMT sharpen, histogram & curves stretch, local histogram equalization, color saturation.