M45

Shotdate: October 2nd 2013

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: Nikkor 80-400mm f4.5-5.6 @ 400mm f7.1

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

Guiding: LVI SmartGuider2 on 500mm APO

 

Stacking in DeepSkyStacker:

Stacking mode: Standard

Alignment method: Bicubic

Stacking 30 frames (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 2 hr 30 mn 30 s

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: No

Per Channel Background Calibration: Yes

Method: Auto Adaptive Weighted Average (Iterations = 5)

 

Offset: 108 frames exposure: 1/8000 s

Method: Median Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Dark: 28 frames exposure: 5 mn 0 s

Method: Median

 

Flat: 42 frames exposure: 1/8 s

 

Method: Median Kappa-Sigma (Kappa = 2.00, Iterations = 5)

 

Post-processing in PixInsight 1.7

Done