Long time no see. Thought I'd start posting here again. For some reason I forgot about IIS :S
I absolutely love the amount of colour detail I got out of this one.
Higher resolution here
Image:
- 59x 300s CLS-CCD light pollution filter
- 27x 300s Red
- 21x 300s Green
- 21x 300s Blue
Total integration 10 hours 40 minutes. Focal length: 1960mm
Hardware:
- Celestron 11" EdgeHD
- Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
- Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
- Astrodon RGB 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 5th December 2019 and 29th January 2020
- 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, histogram, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.