furgle
10-08-2018, 09:50 AM
I was originally planning on using the RGB data to colour the stars in the SHO version, but couldn't make it look "nice". For such a short amount of exposure time, the RGB data was surprisingly strong.
SHO Image:
39x 600s Sulfur-II
15x 600s Hydrogen-alpha
37x 600s Oxygen-III
Total integration 15 hours, 10 minutes.
RGB Image:
18x 60s Red
21x 60s Green
18x 60s Blue
Total integration 57 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm SHO filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight both: calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, stretch, curves.
Pixinsight SHO: pixelmath combine SHO, SCNR green.
Pixinsight RGB: Photometric color calibration.
SHO Image:
39x 600s Sulfur-II
15x 600s Hydrogen-alpha
37x 600s Oxygen-III
Total integration 15 hours, 10 minutes.
RGB Image:
18x 60s Red
21x 60s Green
18x 60s Blue
Total integration 57 minutes.
Hardware:
Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik 6nm SHO filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
Captured with TheSkyX Professional
Guiding with PHD2
FocusLock live focusing
PixInsight both: calibrate, align, stack, crop, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, stretch, curves.
Pixinsight SHO: pixelmath combine SHO, SCNR green.
Pixinsight RGB: Photometric color calibration.