Well after a 5 month hiatus i am back at it with a target i have long wanted to go DEEP with. Centaurus A has a limited 4 hour window each night from my location so i have been piling on the data with the ASI.
A complete image is probably a few weeks away but i thought i would share what i have currently.
Details:
Mount: EQ6
Scope: 102mm F7 APO (Teleskop Express)
Camera: ASI1600MM
Filters: Astrodon E Series Lum
Image Integration:
409 x 30 second shots over one night (3.5 hours total with a further 7 hours awaiting processing.)
Gain: 50, Offset 21
It took 7 hours to process to a simple stack so this is just a stack with screen transfer function from PixInSight applied. As such data is undrizzeled etc etc.
I am thinking to speed things along about processing images in 100 shot packs then stacking these stacks together as my Computer is having conniptions compiling 400+ images.
http://astrob.in/full/295536/0/