Decided to go after something more obscure since I’ve got terrible horizons and I’ve already shot a lot of the brighter things in this part of the sky. There’s also a number of other galaxies in the uncropped background. Captured on July 22-26th, 2023 from my bortle 8 apartment balcony.
Decided to go after something more obscure since I’ve got terrible horizons and I’ve already shot a lot of the brighter things in this part of the sky. There’s also a number of other galaxies in the uncropped background. Captured on July 22-26th, 2023 from my bortle 8 apartment balcony.
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Equipment:
TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian
Orion Sirius EQ-G
ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector
ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm
Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm
Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm
Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope
ZWO ASI-120mc for guiding
Moonlite Autofocuser
Acquisition: 13 hours 1 minutes (Camera at half Unity Gain, -15°C)
L- 374x60"
R - 150x60"
G - 151x60"
B - 148x60"
Darks- 30
Flats- 30 per filter
Capture Software:
PixInsight Processing
BatchPreProcessing
StarAlignment
Blink
ImageIntegration
Luminance Linear:
DynamicCrop
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXterminator
ArcsinhStretch+HistogramTransformation to bring nonlinear
RGB Linear:
DynamicCrop
DynamicBackgroundExtraction
ChannelCombination
SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
HSV Repair
DeepSNR
Slight SCNR green
AcrsinhStretch + HistogramTransformation to stretch nonlinear
Nonlinear:
added stretch luminance to stretched RGB via LRGBCombination
DeepSNR
shitloads of CurveTransformations to adjust hue, lightness, saturation, etc. (some with lum masks)
DynamicCrop again
annotation