Cepheus region

Shotdate: 1th september 2011

Location: Teuge, NL

Camera: Nikon D3x

Optics: 80-400mm @ 80mm f7.1

Mount: SkyWatcher NEQ6Pro

Guiding: LVI Guider 2

 

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Stacking in DeepskyStacker 3.3.2

 

DeepSkyStacker settings:

Stacking mode: Mosaic

Alignment method: Bicubic

Stacking16 frames ISO 1600 total exposure: 1 hr 20 mn

 

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

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

 

Offset: 108 frames

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

 

Dark: 8 frames

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

 

Flat: 32 frames exposure: 1/3 s

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

 

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Postprocessing in PixInsight 1.6

 

ScreenTransferFunction

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

HistogramTransformation

ChannelExtraction: clone

Extracting lightness: 100%

HistogramTransformation: clone_L

CurvesTransformation: with mask clone_L

HistogramTransformation

CurvesTransformation

ChannelExtraction: Extracting RGB channels

HistogramTransformation: channel_R

CurvesTransformation: channel_R: Masking from swap files...

CurvesTransformation

DynamicCrop

Done