Here is a photograph of the night skies that I took over the past week. This is the Iris Nebula, NGC7023.
This image was collected from Light Polluted London (Bortle 8), and pulling out the dust was a challenge. I'm not happy with the rendition, but PI crashed on me before I was finished, so I'm posting up where I got to and going to bed. I will probably try again at some point -- criticisms and suggestions for processing would be most welcome!
Exposure:
• Total Exposure 9 hours
• 360 x 90 seconds Lights
• 30 Flats corrected by 30 DarkFlats
• 50 x 90 second Darks
Hardware:
• Altair Hypercam 269C Pro Tec
• Celestron 80ED Telescope
• IKHAROS 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
• DeepSkyDad AF3 AutoFocuser
• SkyWatcher HEQ5 Mount
• Orion Mini Guide Scope
• Altair 183M Guide Camera
Software:
• N.I.N.A. -- Capturing
• PHD2 -- Guiding
• ASTAP -- Plate Solving
• PixInsight -- Processing
Comments and Criticisms welcome, indeed appreciated!
This image was collected from Light Polluted London (Bortle 8), and pulling out the dust was a challenge. I'm not happy with the rendition, but PI crashed on me before I was finished, so I'm posting up where I got to and going to bed. I will probably try again at some point -- criticisms and suggestions for processing would be most welcome!
Exposure:
• Total Exposure 9 hours
• 360 x 90 seconds Lights
• 30 Flats corrected by 30 DarkFlats
• 50 x 90 second Darks
Hardware:
• Altair Hypercam 269C Pro Tec
• Celestron 80ED Telescope
• IKHAROS 0.8x Reducer/Flattener
• DeepSkyDad AF3 AutoFocuser
• SkyWatcher HEQ5 Mount
• Orion Mini Guide Scope
• Altair 183M Guide Camera
Software:
• N.I.N.A. -- Capturing
• PHD2 -- Guiding
• ASTAP -- Plate Solving
• PixInsight -- Processing
Comments and Criticisms welcome, indeed appreciated!