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Theme: Subframing

32 Panel Orion Mosaic

Each panel:(average#)

L-14x30sec

R-10x30

G-6x30

B-6x30

HA-3x120sec

 

Totals:

1130 Subframes/ 13h 45m

 

The original image measured 22,220 x 14,660 pixels

 

QHY163M

11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar (F/2)

Orion HDX-110

  

I overlayed an extremely blurred, cropped version of this: flic.kr/p/JEStw8 and set the layer to "soft light" as an experiment...

 

Also I used core data from these:

Horsehead Nebula full: flic.kr/p/22tVKd3

Horsehead close-up: flic.kr/p/P1UuSp

M42 full: <a href="https://flic.kr/p/RWJcUJ"

  

Processed in PixInsight, assembled in Photoshop 2017

Definition: Sub-framing is a type of compositional photography technique wherein one or more photo elements are framed by another element.

1997 Rover 114 SLi auto 3-door.

 

Last taxed and last MoT test expired in May 2017.

It failed a test that month -

 

Offside front windscreen wiper does not clear the windscreen effectively (8.2.2)

Nearside front subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)

Offside front subframe mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded (2.4.a.3)

Nearside front seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.2.6)

Offside front seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.2.6)

On a Rainy July Morning

FlickrFriday theme is: #Subframing

B&W Project 2020 - Week 5/26 - Subframing

For this week's Flickr Friday theme of "Subframing"

The Packard Station Sedan was a pseudo luxury station wagon model produced by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan between 1948 and 1950, using the Packard Eight platform. By offering the Station Sedan Packard could market a vehicle with station wagon attributes, but without the investment cost associated with a complete station wagon development program.[2]

 

The Station Sedan used a combination of steel framing and body parts along with structural wood panels made from northern birch to create a "woody" station wagon-like car due to the growing popularity of them after World War II. Unlike other woody wagons of the day, which used wooden passenger compartments mounted to chassis of a particular car, the Station Sedan used a steel subframe and steel passenger doors onto which hard wood panels were mounted. The only wooden door on the vehicle was the rear gate assembly.[3] Unlike competitor station wagons from Buick, Chrysler and Mercury, the Packard's length was not long enough to accommodate optional third row seating.[3]

 

Neither a sedan, nor true station wagon, the Station Sedan enjoyed limited success, with a listed retail price of US$3,459 ($38,958 in 2021 dollars [4]) for its final year of 1950, and was discontinued when the 1951 Packard models were introduced.

Seestar S50

 

393 ten second subframes - polar alignment

Photo by Alexandre Fernandez

 

Press L for a better view my friend :-)

 

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For this image I took two photos of two horses looking over a fence, I then superimposed a close up of one of the horses, reduced it in size and repositioned it onto the original image which I made black and white.

I have wanted to get a detailed shot of this supernova remnant for quite some time. The guiding wasn't perfect this night, but I'm pleased with the overall result. I wonder if I'll be able to do this well enough again in the future to watch the expansion of the nebula that continues from when it appeared in the sky as a supernova in 1054 C.E.

 

Shot with a Celestron Edge HD 925 at focal length 2210 mm (f/9.4) with an Atik 414-EX monochrome CCD and Optolong RGB deep sky filters. All subframes were 150 s exposures.

R: 21 exposures

G: 21 exposures

B: 24 exposures

Preprocessing in Nebulosity; registration, stacking, channel combination, and initial processing in PixInsight; final touches in Photoshop. Taken from my light polluted backyard in Long Beach, CA.

Mu Cephei, officially named the Garnet Star, is a red supergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 (Elephant's trunk) nebula. Mu Cephei is more than 100,000 times brighter than the Sun. It is also one of the largest known stars with a radius around or over 1,000 times that of the sun, and were it placed in the Sun's position it would engulf the orbit of Mars and Jupiter. (Wikipedia)

 

NB: Superman would have no powers there.

 

Seestar S50

832 ten second subframes

1962 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL Roadster

 

Further to posting the steering wheel and dash board the other day, here is the rest of the car, which didn't actually sell at the auction last September so it may still be up for sale.

 

"Announced in 1954 and based on the 180 saloon whose all-independently-suspended running gear it used, the 190 SL did not enter production until January 1955, the delay being caused by alterations aimed at strengthening the saloon's shortened platform to compensate for the open body's reduced stiffness. Mounted on a detachable subframe along with the four-speed manual gearbox, front suspension and steering, the power unit was a 1,897cc overhead-camshaft four - the first such engine ever to feature in a Mercedes-Benz. Breathing through twin Solex down-draft carburettors, the M121 unit produced 105bhp at 5,700rpm, an output sufficient to propel the 190SL to 60mph in 13 seconds and on to a top speed of 107 miles per hour."

NGC 2244 also know as the Rosette Nebula is a emission nebula located in the Monoceros constellation.

The nebula is at 5200 light years from earth and is approximately 65 light years wide

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 76x300s

Total integration time 6,3h

Dark: 34x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 12 January 2022

26,27,28 Febuary 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation

Saturate stars for push up stars color

SCNR star mask

Bring back the stars with PixelMath

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Final Curve Transformation

Annotation

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

  

Prague, Czech Republic

 

this is actually a reprocessing of the image I took earlier in the year, now that I have a slightly better understanding of how to process astro images, another challenge is that instead of a stack of one hour of data this is simply a single 2 minute subframe stretched, very happy with how it came out

Description: This image of the Pleiades Star Cluster M45 was developed by me from 120x300s subs or 10.0 hours of total exposure time.

 

Date / Location: 9-11, 13, 14, 16-19 December 2022 / Washington D.C.

 

Equipment:

Scope: WO Zenith Star 81mm f/6.9 with WO 6AIII flattener/focal reducer x0.8

Cooled camera: ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro at 100 Gain and 50 Offset

Mount: iOptron GEM28-EC mount

Guider: ZWO Off-Axis Guider

Guide camera: ZWO ASI 174MM mini

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Light pollution filter: Chroma LoGlow Broadband Light Pollution Reduction Filter - 2"

 

Software: Pixinsight

 

Processing Steps:

Preprocessing: I preprocessed 120x300s subs (= 10.0 hours) in Pixinsight to get an integrated image using the following process steps: Image Calibration > Cosmetic Correction > Subframe Selector > Debayer > Select Reference Star and Star Align > Image Integration.

Linear Postprocessing: Rotation > Dynamic Crop > Dynamic Background Extractor (both subtraction to remove light pollution gradients and division for flat field corrections) > Background Neutralization > Color Calibration > Noise Xterminator.

Nonlinear Postprocessing and additional steps: Histogram Transformation > Local Histogram Equalization > Curves Transformation > SCNR Noise Reduction. Multiple passes of Histogram Transformation, Local Histogram Equalization and Curves Transformations were made in small doses.

The Elephant's Trunk Nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.

Images taken at the end of September 2023.

 

Full resolution : astrob.in/o8h9n7/0/

 

Sii= 75x300s

Ha= 76x300s

Oii= 75x300s

  

Total time : 18h50'

 

-Equipment-

Scope: Askar107PHQ (740mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro at -5°C gain 101 offset 49

Filter: Optolong SHO 3nm 50.80mm

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM+ZWO OAG-L

 

All processing was done in Pixinsight exept one step

 

-Pre Processing-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

 

-Processing-

 

Star Alignment

Dynamic Crop

Dynamic Background Extractor

BlurXTerminator

NoiseXTerminator

StarXTerminator

HistogramTransformation

 

-Stars-

ChanelCombination

ImageSolver

SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

HistogramTransformation

ACDNR (green100%)

ACDNR (green50%)Ctrl+i

ColorSaturation

 

-L-

Mix max(Ha and Sii)

HDRMultiscaleTransform with mask

Mix (0.75xL+0.25xL_boost)

 

-SHO-

SHO palette

TSL/color in Lightroom

ColorSaturation

 

-L-SHO-

LRGBCombination

CuvesTransformation

ColorSaturation

More CurveTransformation

Add Stars

FinalCrop

First try with HDR in pixinsight, hope you like it !

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 62x300s + 88x120s

Total integration time 8h

Dark: 100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

100s120s

Date : 30 January 2022

07,26,27 Febuary 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

*HRD*

DBE 300s and 120s

StarAlignement -> register 300s and 120s

HRDComposition -> blend 300s and 120s frame

 

Split L,R,G,B Chanel

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Streatch

HDRMultiscaleTransform

StarNet++ for build nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with mask

LocalHistogramEqualization with mask

 

__RGB__

ChanelCombination(RGB)

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

HDRMultiscaleTransform

Starnet++

SCNR star mask

 

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Ez_Denoise

StarNet++

Final CurvesTransformation

Save as jpg

 

Clear skies !

 

This is a re-process of my original RGB photo from May 2024. An additional 1 hour of luminance subframes was added to the original image stack. Thsi helped to bring out the details of the molecular cloud and trails of dust.

 

Additional technical details can be seen at my Astrobin page:

 

www.astrobin.com/j2vrmb/B/

 

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, between 04.00 and 04.21 EDT

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Altitude of nebulae at time of exposures: 40°

* Temperature -2° C.

 

* Total exposure time: 10 minutes

* 540 mm focal length telescope

 

For a version of this photo WITH LABELS, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/30192300591

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Description:

 

Among the most photographed and examined areas of the sky is this region surrounding Alnilak, one of the three bright stars in the Belt of Orion.

 

The Horsehead Nebula: The famous Horsehead Nebula, which was first photographed and identified in 1888 by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming at the Harvard Observatory, is a foreground cloud of dark gas that is seen in silhouette against a background red hydrogen gas cloud.

 

Read more about the Horsehead Nebula here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula

 

... and here:

www.space.com/16528-horsehead-nebula.html

 

The Zeta Orionis (Flame) Nebula: The large, intricate pale pink nebula to the lower right of the brightest star is the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024), which is located between 900 and 1,500 light years from our solar system.

 

For more about this nebula, click here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_Nebula

 

The Orion Molecular Cloud Complex: Both the Flame and the Horsehead Nebulae are part of this huge star-forming region in Orion. Read more here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Molecular_Cloud_Complex

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Technical information:

 

Nikon D810a camera body on Teleview 101is apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount using an ADM Accessories side-by-side saddle

 

Ten stacked frames; each frame:

540 mm focal length

ISO 3200; 1 minute exposure at f/5.4; unguided

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes registered in RegiStar;

Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (levels, brightness, contrast, colour balance, sharpening)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Chatsworth House, Peak District, Derbyshire

The first light with my new mount and telescope.

 

165 minutes of total exposure, 33x300sec subframes, calibrated with darks and bias frames.

 

Camera: QSI 583wsg

Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6 pro

Telescope: TS 8" f/5 Newtonian

comma corrector: Baader MPCC mark III

Flickr Friday: Subframing

At the edge of the 'Veerse bos', hikers are framed by nature.

Prague, Czech Republic

IC 443 also known as the Jellyfish Nebula is a galactic supernova remnant in the constellation Gemini, at 5000 Light years from Earth.

IC 443 may be the remains of a supernova that occurred 3,000 - 30,000 years ago.

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 124x300s

Total integration time 10h

Dark: 34x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 4 March 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE MasterLRGB

 

___RGB layer___HOO

Split RGB channels to build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation

Saturate stars for push up stars color

SCNR star mask

Bring back the stars with PixelMath

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Stretch

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Ez_Denoise

Final Curve Transformation

Annotation

Save as JPG

 

Clear skies !

  

Mull covered bridge in Sandusky County, Ohio.

As of last week, the Bugatti Veyron is once again the fastest car in the world. The figures are stunning: 8.0 litres, 4 turbochargers, 16 cylinders, 1001 hp, 4wd.

 

This Lego model has been built to 1:15 scale (16-wide) for Eurobricks 2010 LDD Challenge and features a mid-mounted W8 piston motor, 4wd, four-wheel independent modularised suspension. The vehicle is built to true automotive method. The front passenger tub is technic pin mounted to the rear engine/chassis subframe. All exterior panel except the roof are unstressed and can be detached from the body. The rear spoiler is also height and pitch adjustable.

Helix nebula (NGC7293), hAlpha, 36 h total exposure time with Hyperstar 14"/F1.9 with ASI 1600 and RASA 11"/F2.2 with ATIK 460, parallel mounted on a ASA DDM85. Single subframe exposure time between 90 sec unbinned for the center structures and 180 sec 2x2 bin for the faint environmental veils. I am very happy how many structures of the environment are getting visible. I look forward to your feedback! Tenerife November 2017.

The great Andromeda Galaxy M31 in messier catalog

This is a 4 panel mosaic capture during two cold nights.

 

Starless version : flic.kr/p/2mDSYEG

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5

Filter: Astronomik L

 

-Acquisition-

Light :Panel-1 60x300s

Panel-2 60x300s

Panel-3 52x300s

Panel-4 60x300s

Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : Take on 2 night 05 September2021

and 10 October 2021

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Build the 4 panel mozaic

It's my first 4 panel mosaic so I follow this tutorial from Amy Astro www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0f8Tl_kC0A

 

-Processing

 

DBE master Light

Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light

 

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Denoise

Ez_Soft Streatch

Ez_HDR

UnsharpedMask with mask

 

__RGB__

Linear Fit

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

Starnet++

CuvesTransformation with mask

A lot of curves...

Bring back stars with PixelMath

 

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Final CurvesTransformation

Ez_Star Reduction

DarkStructureEnhance script

Save as jpg

 

Clear Skies !

Now the colour version. During the "Perseid night" I had a lot of luck (and maybe also a kind of skilled serendipity). Tons of luck indead that the meteor is captured in both systems (regarding the 10 sec+ CCD downloading time which is an effective exposure pause). Through the middle of a relatively tiny sky area (FOV 7. 2 x 10. 8 °) I could capture this meteor (which is, however, no Perseid but probably a late Delta-Aquariid) crossing Andromeda Galaxy and with multiple outbursts.

Technique: parallel exposure with two imaging systems:

(1) Canon 200mm/F1.8 (open), SX-36, L-pro filter, 240 sec exposure time,

(2) Canon 200mm/F1.8 (open), Sony A7s (CentralDS modded), ISO 3200, IDAS-V4 filter, 90 sec

both on EQ8 mount unguided.

Final image processed with 32 subframes from each system for the galaxy and the stars resulting in a L-RGB image.

Tenerife, 1180 m alt, 2016-08-12 00:45 UT

Young heron on the edge of our pond.

Comet 45P, at last there were some subframes usables, with individual background extraction, so that I could integrate some of them. Now the split tail is well visible.

Parallel exposure on ASA DDM 85 mount:

(1) 7 x 60 sec Hyperstar C14/F1.9, Lumicon comet filter, ASI 1600 mono, cooled (-32° C), processed as emerald green in the RGB image.

(2) 7 x 60 sec RASA 11"/F2.2, L-filter, ATIK 490 color, cooled (-18° C)

FOV 1° x 0,9°, location: Tenerife 1180 m altitude. 19:20 h - 19:50 h UT (with many missing subframes due to clouds)

 

This nebula is located at around 7500 lights years from the Earth and extend over 165 lights years.

 

On the upper right part you can see the Fish Head Nebula (IC 1795).

On the left it is a part of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) and you can see Melotte 15 in the middle of the Heart Nebula, a little star cluster with a lot of dust

 

Starless version: flic.kr/p/2mA2B1y

One exposure 300s : flic.kr/p/2mwYXX5

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -15°C

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher NEQ5

Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light :218x300s ( 18h ) at Gain:101 Offset:49

Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : Take on 5 night 29, 30 september 2021

and 7, 8, 9 october 2021

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

I use the ForaxX palette for HOO combination

ForaxX website : thecoldestnights.com

And the Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

Split the master_LRGB into L, R, G, B layer

DynamicBackgroundExtractor each layer

 

___RGB layer___

Split RGB channels for build Ha and Oiii

Ha=R Oiii= B*0.3+G*0.7

EZ_Soft Stretch

HOO combination with Foraxx formula

R=Ha

G=((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Ha + ~((Oiii*Ha)^~(Oiii*Ha))*Oiii

B=Oiii

Starnet++ for remove stars and build a mask nebula

Color Saturation

Curves Tansformation (K,saturation,hue)

Saturate stars for push up stars color

SCNR with star Mask for remove green in stars (OSC camera)

Bring back the stars with PixelMath

 

___L layer___

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Denoise

Ez_Soft Stretch

Ez_HDR

Local Histogram Equalization with nebula mask

UnsharpedMask with nebula mask

 

___LRGB___

Final Curve Transformation

DarkStructureEnhance script

EZ_Star Reduction

 

Save as BMP 32bit file

 

Clear skies !

Target: IC63 Ghost of Cassiopeia.

About 550 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia lies IC 63, a fitting nebula for Halloween time.

Also known as the ghost of Cassiopeia, IC 63 is being shaped by radiation from a variable star, Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is slowly eroding away the ghostly cloud of dust and gas.

 

Gear:

Mount: ZWO AM5

Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 14F

Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope

Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 575

Filter: Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha and Oiii

 

Acquisition:

Light frames: Best 60 of 84 5 minute subs totalling 5 Hr integration

Sessions: 01-Nov-23

Location: Houston Colorado County, Texas

Bortle: 5

Moon: 87%, 60degrees off target

 

Processing

• PI - Subframe selector, WBPP

• GraXpert background

• PI SPCC

• PI Russel Croman - BXT NXT STX

• PI Starless Edits

○ Bill Blanshan Mike Cranfield Narrowband Normalization Tool

○ GHS Stretch

○ Curves

• PI Stars Edits

○ Arcsinh Stretch

○ SCNR, Invert and SCNR

○ Curve Saturation

• PS ACR Black point, Highlights, Clarity, Dehaze

• PS Selective Colors

• PS Screen stars layer, copy stars layer/brighten it/mask in selective stars

• PS Watermark

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Photographed at Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

(285 km by road north of Toronto)

* Temperature 11 degrees C.

 

Total exposure time: 15 minutes.

* 540 mm focal length telescope

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Description:

 

This large hydrogen gas nebula lies about 6,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, and in the Perseus Arm of our Milky Way galaxy. The nebula is energized by hot stars near the centre in this view, some of which are about 50 times the mass of our own Sun. The nebula has a diameter of about 200 light years.

 

For a wider angle view of Cassiopeia and this nebula, made with a 50 mm lens on the same evening, click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/31139391496

 

For a version of this photo WITH LABELS, click on your screen to the RIGHT of the photo, or click here:

www.flickr.com/photos/97587627@N06/31079227441

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Technical information:

 

Nikon D810a camera body on Teleview 101is apochromatic refracting telescope, mounted on Astrophysics 1100GTO equatorial mount

 

Fifteen stacked frames; each frame:

540 mm focal length

ISO 5000; 1 minute exposure at f/5.4; unguided

(with LENR - long exposure noise reduction)

 

Subframes registered in RegiStar;

Stacked and processed in Photoshop CS6 (brightness, contrast, colour balance, levels)

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