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Heart & Soul Nebula First Light test
* Aquisition using NINA
* Total exposure of 95 minutes from bortle 8 light polluted Balcony
* Lights : 19 frames of 300s each
* Calibrated with Darks, Flats & Biases
* Imaging Setup:-
1. Telescope - Samyang 135mm F2 lens
2. Camera - Touptek ATR533C
3. Mount - Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
4. Filter - Optolong L Extreme
5. Guiding - PHD2 guiding using SVbony 30mm F4 scope with Touptek GPM 662M Guide camera
* Stacked in Siril
* Processing - Background Extraction, Deconvolution and Denoising in Graxpert
* Astrometry, SPCC Color Calibration, Statistical stretch, Curve transform in Siril
* Final Retouch in GIMP
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* Aquisition using NINA
* Total exposure of 95 minutes from bortle 8 light polluted Balcony
* Lights : 19 frames of 300s each
* Calibrated with Darks, Flats & Biases
* Imaging Setup:-
1. Telescope - Samyang 135mm F2 lens
2. Camera - Touptek ATR533C
3. Mount - Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi
4. Filter - Optolong L Extreme
5. Guiding - PHD2 guiding using SVbony 30mm F4 scope with Touptek GPM 662M Guide camera
* Stacked in Siril
* Processing - Background Extraction, Deconvolution and Denoising in Graxpert
* Astrometry, SPCC Color Calibration, Statistical stretch, Curve transform in Siril
* Final Retouch in GIMP
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Elephant’s Trunk Nebula
11.3 hrs data I collected from my 8” Hyperstar a month or so ago. Used an Antlia TriBand Ultra II RGB filter.
Took that big image and conducted the super crop post stack, and then processed two images (RGB and HOO) and processed individually. I liked the looks of them both, so I decided to blend the two.
55/45 split of RGB/HOO.
I think I might just like it!
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11.3 hrs data I collected from my 8” Hyperstar a month or so ago. Used an Antlia TriBand Ultra II RGB filter.
Took that big image and conducted the super crop post stack, and then processed two images (RGB and HOO) and processed individually. I liked the looks of them both, so I decided to blend the two.
55/45 split of RGB/HOO.
I think I might just like it!
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Corona Borealis Galaxy Cluster
Somewhat of an unassuming photo and hardly the best I have taken, but for about an hours worth of data I am amazed that I can even see it with just a 6" Ritchey-Chretien Carbonstar considering this is the Corona Borealis galaxy cluster. This cluster is home to more than 400 galaxies with an estimated 20 - 100 trillion stars! The reason I am surprised that I can even see it; however, is because it resides 1 - 1.2 BILLION light years away! That means that when the light of those galaxies left their stars, animals had yet to come into existence on Earth. Anyway space is amazing and this hobby is mind blowing!
Equipment:
6" Ritchey-Chretien Carbonstar
Skywatcher EQAL-55i
ZWO ASI2600MCAir
Processing:
Stacked in StackerWizard
Final processing in AstroWizard (flattening gradients, denoising, star removal, etc.)
1 hour of lights at 60 seconds per exposure
No flats, darks, bias
#space
Somewhat of an unassuming photo and hardly the best I have taken, but for about an hours worth of data I am amazed that I can even see it with just a 6" Ritchey-Chretien Carbonstar considering this is the Corona Borealis galaxy cluster. This cluster is home to more than 400 galaxies with an estimated 20 - 100 trillion stars! The reason I am surprised that I can even see it; however, is because it resides 1 - 1.2 BILLION light years away! That means that when the light of those galaxies left their stars, animals had yet to come into existence on Earth. Anyway space is amazing and this hobby is mind blowing!
Equipment:
6" Ritchey-Chretien Carbonstar
Skywatcher EQAL-55i
ZWO ASI2600MCAir
Processing:
Stacked in StackerWizard
Final processing in AstroWizard (flattening gradients, denoising, star removal, etc.)
1 hour of lights at 60 seconds per exposure
No flats, darks, bias
#space
