The South Pacific Star Party has been my first opportunity to collect some serious dark sky RGB data with the QHY9. I decided to spend half my time one night on the Lagoon as my main object, and if other nights out of the 3 I was there were good than that would be a bonus (all 3 were fantastic as it turned out
, though I didn't want to spend too long on one object as I've still got my LRGB training wheels on really).
This data is a merge of 3hrs of LRGB from Wiruna (10mins subs 1x1 all) + another 3x3x5mins LRGB through an IDAS pollution filter from Bris + 2 x 5min Ha from Brisbane. Processing DSS/PixInsight/PS.
I've tried a few new techniques on this data as it seemed good enough to hold up to some torturing. Hope I haven't got carried away...
M8 Full frame HaLRGB 10:105:45:45:45
M8 Cropped
QHY9/QHY Filter Wheel/QHY Filters
8" Newt on Heq5Pro
Guiding 9x50 SW Finderscope + Orion SSAG
Thanks for looking!