Geminids 13-12-2012 reworked

10 images of 8 seconds exposure ISO 1600 merged in PS5

 

All positions of the meteors are as they were viewed in the sky relative to the stars, using PixInsight for alignment.

 

The old image is here: www.flickr.com/photos/14721988@N02/8294716851/in/photostream

 

Background stacked in DeepSkyStacker:

 

50 frames (ISO: 1600) - total exposure: 6 mn 40 s

RGB Channels Background Calibration: Yes

Per Channel Background Calibration: No

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

 

Dark: 8 frames (ISO : 1600) exposure: 8 s

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

 

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PixInsight Core 01.07.06.0793 Starbuck (x86_64) processing

 

DynamicBackgroundExtraction

 

3 times:

ChannelExtraction: Extracting lightness

HistogramTransformation: L

ATrousWaveletTransform: L

HistogramTransformation: Masking from L

 

ColorCalibration

HistogramTransformation

ACDNR

Done