The Pinwheel Galaxy (Rework)

After almost two years of work, my house is almost completely finished. The house has three floors, the top one was not finished, when I moved in. We put the isolation in and made the walls inside for the room separation. The big height (5.5 meters) and the size in general, made this project last for longer than we thought first... (maybe I will post some images)

But now the bigger work is done and theres just some smaller stuff to do. Finally I can enjoy my selfbuild house. Now its time to "reactivate" my telescopes and stuff for galaxy season.

There are also plans for an observatory in my garden. Idk if it gets finished this year...

 

To the image:

This is one of nearly countless reworks I made on this data set, captured it in March 2019. These are almost 12 hours of data in LRGB.

 

 

-- EQUIPMENT ---------------------------

Camera: SBIG STF-8300

Filterwheel: SBIG FW8 (8 x 36 mm)

Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS P2, Astrodon RGB

Telescope: TS 10" ONTC Newton (1140mm f/4.5)

Guiding: SBIG OAG with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2

Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO CP4

 

Software

Capturing: Sequence Generator Pro

Mount control: AP V2

Guiding: PHD2

Processing: Pixinsight

 

-- Details -----------------------------------

Date: 29th + 30th March 2019

Location: My backyard

Bortle Scale: 5

Temp CCD: -30°C

Pixel size: 5.4 μm

Pixel scale: 0.97 Arcseconds per pixel

 

-- Exposures ------------------------------

L: 23 x 15 min

R: 12 x 10 min

G: 12 x 10 min

B: 12 x 10 min

Total integration time: 11.75 hours.

Done