I know, I know - another Eta
I know, I know - everything I'll be doing for a while will be first QHY9 something or other...
But, poor Brissy weather has really prolonged the learning curve getting the QHY9 integrated into my imaging routine. Friday night was very decent here, so I took the opportunity after the moon went down to take a couple of hours of RGB subs which I've later used to make a HaRGB merge effort (about 35% Ha mixed in with red channel).
Ohh - something else that was a first - used 8x50 Finderscope as a guider with Starshoot Autoguider - thanks to Brendan for making up an adaptor for me. Tracking not perfect, but quite a bit better than I usually manage I believe.
Ha data was 19x5min subs (no binning) = 95mins
RGB data was 5mins subs (no binning) = 35:25:30 mins
Processing in DeepSkyStacker (calibration), PixInsight (Deconvolution, RGB merge, curves, saturation, stars) and resized in PS.
QHY9, QHY Filters, MPCC/IDAS LPS all through 8" Newt on HEQ5Pro
Thanks for looking,
Rob