tigerfan72
Messier 67
My image of Messier 67 I took last night. Put a little extra effort into this one. I took 65 frames @ 60 secs exposure on each frame. Also did 40 dark frames right after with the same settings as the light frames. Took 50 flat frames this morning with a T-Shirt over the aperature of my scope and the scope up against my laptop which I had Notepad open. Then I did 70 bias frames, which you just set the fastest exposure your camera can shoot at and snap pics with the dust cover on the camera. I'm guessing that's why this one has a smoother looking background than my other pics. Then load them all into Deep Sky Stacker and let it stack them. Then bring the stacked pic into PixInsight and adjusted the curves and color saturation and used a noise reduction filter on it.
This one is located just below and a little south of the Beehive Cluster which I imaged the other night.
Messier 67
My image of Messier 67 I took last night. Put a little extra effort into this one. I took 65 frames @ 60 secs exposure on each frame. Also did 40 dark frames right after with the same settings as the light frames. Took 50 flat frames this morning with a T-Shirt over the aperature of my scope and the scope up against my laptop which I had Notepad open. Then I did 70 bias frames, which you just set the fastest exposure your camera can shoot at and snap pics with the dust cover on the camera. I'm guessing that's why this one has a smoother looking background than my other pics. Then load them all into Deep Sky Stacker and let it stack them. Then bring the stacked pic into PixInsight and adjusted the curves and color saturation and used a noise reduction filter on it.
This one is located just below and a little south of the Beehive Cluster which I imaged the other night.