furgle
15-10-2020, 05:41 PM
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 (https://astropixels.com.au/astrophotography/Starburst_Galaxy_NGC_1808/)
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.
I absolutely love the amount of colour detail I got out of this one.
Higher resolution here (https://astropixels.com.au/astrophotography/Starburst_Galaxy_NGC_1808/)
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.