Tej Dyal
m15 Pegasus Globula Cluster from Peckham Living Room
This is just an 11 minute capture from my Living Room with an 80mm refractor. It's a rough capture but seeing an ancient cluster of 100,000 stars, 33,000 light years away fromthe heart of London light pollutution..I aint gonna complain! Seeing this globular through an eyepiece is actually more vivid than the more popular Hercules cluster M13 in London skies, probably because it is condensedly packed than the more disperse Hercules.
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Capture details
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Location: Peckham, London, Living Room window!
Telescope: 80mm Equinox APO refractor with a field flattener
Mount: Nexstar 6/8SE Alt Az on a sturdy table.
Camera: Canon 650D unmodded
Light frames
170 X 4 Sec (11mins)
ISO 3200
30 Dark Frames
Stacked with DSS (Deep Sky Stacker). Manually adjusted RGB levels, luminosity and saturation to get as visually appealing image with colour stars before importing into imaging software.
Camera Raw: cropped, adjusted black, highlights, and whites. reduced noise.
Photoshop. Gradient tool to level out light pollution, gradually adjusted levels multiple times to eliminate light pollution, curves to bring out more detail.
m15 Pegasus Globula Cluster from Peckham Living Room
This is just an 11 minute capture from my Living Room with an 80mm refractor. It's a rough capture but seeing an ancient cluster of 100,000 stars, 33,000 light years away fromthe heart of London light pollutution..I aint gonna complain! Seeing this globular through an eyepiece is actually more vivid than the more popular Hercules cluster M13 in London skies, probably because it is condensedly packed than the more disperse Hercules.
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Capture details
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Location: Peckham, London, Living Room window!
Telescope: 80mm Equinox APO refractor with a field flattener
Mount: Nexstar 6/8SE Alt Az on a sturdy table.
Camera: Canon 650D unmodded
Light frames
170 X 4 Sec (11mins)
ISO 3200
30 Dark Frames
Stacked with DSS (Deep Sky Stacker). Manually adjusted RGB levels, luminosity and saturation to get as visually appealing image with colour stars before importing into imaging software.
Camera Raw: cropped, adjusted black, highlights, and whites. reduced noise.
Photoshop. Gradient tool to level out light pollution, gradually adjusted levels multiple times to eliminate light pollution, curves to bring out more detail.