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NGC 6744 with StarTools
I wasn't going to post this but the wise Alex made a good point. Whilst waiting for Saturn to rise a little higher in the sky I thought that I'd kill some time with a few happy snaps. The clouds were forecast to clear later on in the night but at this particular time there was still a thin film of high cloud above. Still since I was only playing around I thought I'd capture some subs to use as test data for my first attempt with StarTools. Having never used StarTools before I wasn't sure where to begin so I just went with the flow.
It was an interesting exercise with some challenges. The biggest one being noise suppression, hence the softness of the final outcome. NGC 6744 is a dim target, but even more so through the high clouds. I had to use high gain settings just to see something leaving me with very noisy subs. It's heavily processed and probably more of an artistic rendition than a photographic one. Anyhow here's the result from my experiment. Processed mostly in StarTools with a couple of little tweaks in Photoshop at the end.
Location:
Backyard
Bortle 7-8ish Sky
Equipment:
130 mm APO
NEQ6
ASI290 MM
Generic eBay filters
Acquisition:
L = 10 x 180
R = 8 x 180
G = 8 x 180
B = 8 x 180
Software:
DSS, StarTools and Photoshop
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