Took advantage of a clear night last week in Sydney town and imaged M8 under a full moon lit sky with my new rig
Conditions were poor to average with some residual smoke haze around from the recent back burning operations around the outskirts of Sydney plus some intermittent passing high cloud
Full Moon
Bortle 8
8” f5 Klaus Helmerich Carbon fibre Newt
EQ6-R pro mount
ZWO 2600MC cooled to -10C , Gain 100
Antlia ALPT Dualband 5nm filter
150 x 2 minute dithered subs
40 x Flats
60 x Bias
EQMOD and Ascom Stellarium
APT
PHD2 Multistar guiding ( 0.65 to 0.80 ) guiding fell away later into the night
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Processed in Startools v 1.8
Data set loaded via Compose using the Bicolour preset
In the Colour module I used SHO mapping vis presets in the Matrix
Synthetic Luminance version
A few OSC Bi colour SHO versions using the Matrix ( the Andy Warhol of OSC narrowband Bicolor imaging )
Astrobin link below for full resolution…..
https://www.astrobin.com/jmd0zn/
Comments welcome
Thanks
Martin