LRGB from the burbs

[Peter.M]

I took some photos from my place last night to try a few things out, the first of which was doing LRGB from my house without a moon. The second was to use flats from a different night of imaging. I think with some targets I might get away with doing LRGB from my place, but the flat idea was a bad idea. I will just take new ones each session.

This is a quickie of m20

15 minutes of each filter
3x5min luminance
5x3min RGB

[Rigel003]

Very nice result Peter. Presumably you could do more short subs if the weather allowed without any ill effects from the light pollution.

[Peter.M]

Yea, I got these last night from about 1030 till midnight, then it clouded over. Shorter subs seemed to work better from my place, but there was still a horrible gradient. Its amazing how much the light pollution effects the photo.

[Rex]

Nice detail Peter. You did well to produce such a great pic a from light poluted skies.

[Paul Haese]

Good detail and star colour is good but the emission nebula is a bit orange. Otherwise a pretty good result.

[Mighty_oz]

Nice pic from suburbia :) How close to the cbd are u, i'm thinking of doing the same to see what it's like and i'm about 10k from Perth cbd

Marcus.

[Peter.M]

Thanks guys, I struggled a bit with the red emission colour maby adding some HA could have helped me get that red I wanted. The other area that was a bit of a pain was the right half of the images background is noticeably more blue than the left.

I live about 15 km as the bird flies from Adelaide. I was really happy with the star colour, and I seem to be getting more reproducible results night to night with collimation and coma. At the end of the day I probably wont do any LRGB projects from my house but I know when I get full narrowband filters that i can add RGB stars to the mix reliably.

[alpal]

Nice pic Peter.
You've done well with that QHY9.

I hear that the QHY22 will be out soon with
latest Sony super sensitive chip – ICX694.
It is however maybe a bit small:
Resolution: 2750 x 2200 pixels; Pixel size: 4.54µm x 4.54µm; Imaging area: 12.49mm x 9.99mm

[Ross G]

A great capture Peter, especially considering the suburban light pollution.

Ross.