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Old 04-06-2018, 02:52 PM
furgle (Adam)
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Shapley 1

Hopefully something you haven't already seen a hundred times, due to it's southern location.


Higher resolution here



Image Integration:
  • 73x 300s Luminance
  • 20x 300s Red
  • 30x 300s Green
  • 27x 300s Blue
Total exposure 12 hours 30 minutes.

Hardware:
  • Celestron C11 EdgeHD
  • SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
  • QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
  • Astronomik Luminance, Deep Sky RGB filters
  • Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
  • Starlight Xpress Active Optics
  • Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
  • Imaged over two nights, high humidity. Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
  • Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
  • Captured with AstroArt 6
  • Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
  • CCDInspector: Image analysis & rejection
  • CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
  • PixInsight: Crop, deconvolution, dynamic backgroup extraction, noise reduction, star size reduction, LRGB combination, background neutralization, color calibration, curves, histogram.
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Last edited by furgle; 05-06-2018 at 10:29 AM.
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