QHY9M First light - Eta Carina
I can finally image during a full moon and under heavy light pollution. Camera arrived early this morning and for some reason the sky was clear this evening??? Has anyone ever heard of this bizarre phenomena?
Anyways, I made a couple of first light blunders. Forgot to decrease the cooling temperature (had it set to -10c from my previous camera), so this meant that the image was a bit noisy with hot pixels abound. Took some darks so its a bit better but next image should be much cleaner.
11x 180sec lights with 6nm Ha filter (1.25")
11x 180sec darks
Processed in photoshop. Any feedback or tips would be great as this is my first narrowband mono image. It's a whole another world!
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