[Muzfox (Murray)]

I recently purchased my first cooled camera, a Zwo 071mc Pro and I gotta say I love it! Being able to take darks whenever I want and build a library on it's own is amazing, but the clean results I was getting out of camera blew me away.

I only managed 2 hours on the chook unfortunately so I took this as a good time to practice my pixinsight processing in bi-colour. Taken with my 72ED Scope on HEQ5 mount, 071mc Pro, Optolong L-Extreme filter (also first light!) I got 24 x 5 minute subs and all were perfect. Unity gain 90 / offset 60, -5 degrees. Appropriate darks x 40, flats x 29 and flat darks x 29.

Calibrated and stacked in Pixinsight using WBPP script, first time using and it worked very well. From there tonnes of playing around and trying different things until I got some sort of result I liked. Lost a bit of detail in the process so I have to work on that. Need more data (and clouds to go away).

I've also attached my first light shot of the Chook from June last year using a modded 1100d, l-enhance filter and pretty much same everything else. Coming along slowly.

I'm thinking I want to get some moonless data with the L-Pro filter as well to add in natural star colours, never done that before so worth a try. Added a filter drawer to my rig so changing is easy enough, just have to rememember to get all the calibration files first.