SpaceNoob
05-01-2013, 10:39 PM
Lately I've been using an FSQ106 with a ASI120MM for doing some planetary data collection with surprising results. Last night I was going to collect some more data to see if I could push it a bit further but there was significant turbulence present and I figured I was wasting my time so I decided to test its performance on deep space targets. - Just for fun ;)
This is not an overly long exposure and to avoid messing around too long with stuff I just used the same collection software I was using to capture Jupiter data (Firecapture). After a bit of fiddling, I found that setting exposure to 20seconds and collecting ~2mins of data from each channel (LRGB) at f/5, I was able to get enough to produce an image with some detail.
Stacked with Registax and processed in Gimp, here is the end result.
This is not an overly long exposure and to avoid messing around too long with stuff I just used the same collection software I was using to capture Jupiter data (Firecapture). After a bit of fiddling, I found that setting exposure to 20seconds and collecting ~2mins of data from each channel (LRGB) at f/5, I was able to get enough to produce an image with some detail.
Stacked with Registax and processed in Gimp, here is the end result.