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Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:30 / Gain:211)
UV/IR filter
240 x 30sec. subs (2hrs.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert, StarNet and Affinity Photo
One of the objects I was able to photograph last night with some unusually clear sky after many cloudy nights, despite it being quite near the horizon. This is one of the more colorful regions of the Milky Way, called the Rho Ophiuchi nebula after the bright star within the blue cloud near the top. The brighter red star near the bottom is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius called Antares, the Heart of the Scorpion. Much of the region is filled with dust, reflecting the light of nearby stars as well as some gas, mostly hydrogen, glowing because it's energized by the nearby hot stars.
Tech: 12 300 sec. exposures, Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, ZWO ASI294MC camera, iOptron CEM25P mount, processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Adobe Lightroom.
Another image of the Western Veil in Cygnus taken with slightly different camera settings.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:20 / Gain:90)
UV/IR filter
28 x 140sec. subs (65 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
NGC 7822 is a beautiful emission nebula in Cepheus, well-known and popular for its shape and the dark nebulae running through it.
Thanks to good weather three weeks ago, I was able to collect 17.5 hours of data at f/2 for this SHO version.
Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocus
EQ6-R Pro
TS 2600 MP (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Baader H-Alpha Highspeed 3.5nm: 178 × 120″ (5h 56′)
Baader O-III Highspeed 4nm: 174 ×120″ (5h 48′)
Baader S-II Highspeed 4nm: 176 × 120″ (5h 52′)
Total: 17h 36′
Bortle 5 (19.50 SQM)
N.I.N.A., Guiding with ZWO ASI 120MM and PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
Clouds rolled out finally for a moment! I had been waiting this for almost couple of months already.
Taken with Sony a6000 DSLR, Canon 300mm 2.8 IS, iOptron SkyGuider Pro, autoguided with ASI 120 mini mono and QHY miniguidescope. 112 x 67 second frames @ f2.8 / ISO 1600. Total integration time 1 hour 52 minutes. Processed with AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight and PhotoShop.
NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy, is the brightest member of the 10 million light-years away Sculptor Galaxy Cluster, which is one of the neighbouring clusters of our own, the Local group. From southern skies it reaches a proper altitude and thus a perfect target for astrophotograpers.
Object: NGC 253 (Sculptor Galaxy)
Optics: Skywatcher Esprit 80ED F5 + 1,0x Flattner
Mount: Astro-Physics EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total ~3.4h, R 13x240sec, G 13x240sec, B 13x240sec, L 12x240sec, 238 Bias, 40 Darks, 53 Flats per channel
Date: 2022-06-28, 2022-07-03
Location: Tivoli Astrofarm, Namibia
Capture: N.I.N.A.
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM mini, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig, Paul Schuberth
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig (AstroPixelProcessor, Photoshop)
The North American Nebula in SHO:
3 hours Ha
1 hour O3
1 hour S2
Equipment:
Altair Astro 72EDF
QHY163m camera with Baader filters
Software:
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor finished in PixIsight and Photoshop
Processing:
This was a challenge as the stars in my first Ha were terrible due to slop in my image train (an extension wasn't flush with the focuser) so I shot 30 mins of Ha and then stacked that with the S2 and O3 before using Starnet+ to extract the stars. I then used Starnet+ to remove the stars from the main filters before stacking and processing them. I finally re-added the good starfield using PixelMath.
Overall, it is still lacking but this is mainly due to lack of overall integration but I'm pleased with it for a total of 5 hours. Used the Hubble SHO pallette for integration
REc51/ZWO ASI 183 MC/ASIAIR/Uv/IR Filter/Bortle 6
Only 8 minutes of integration!-Cloud interrupted sesssion.
Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in Pixinsight,
Stack
Dynamic Crop ( didnt have darks, so lots of ampglow !)
Gradient Correction
Blind Solver script from SetiAstro
Image solver
SPCC
Blur X
NoiseX
Histogram Stretch
Vibrance adjustment in Photoshop CS6
took longer to process than collect the data!
This Open Cluster, Messier 50, No. 2323 in the NGC, lies in the constellation Monoceros and spans almost 18 light-years across.
Object: M 50
Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 071MC Pro @-15°C, Gain=0
Exposure: total ~0,3h, RGGB 40x30sec, 200 Bias, 60 Darks, 40 Flats
Date: 2019-03-02
Location: ATHOS Centro Astronómico S.L., La Palma
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.071: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Remove Light Pollution, Background Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 20.0.4: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Star Shrink, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Masked HighPass Sharpening
Remarks: ASI 071MC Pro made available by Teleskop-Service, Ransburg
9 hrs of data on the Dark Shark Nebula, LDN1235. Data obtained in Grandpre, France, over the course of 3 nights end of August and beginning of September 2024.
Omegon 76ED Pro APO 342 mm f/4.5 flat field.
iOptron HAE43 mount
Nikon D800 DSLR (unmodified)
ASIAIR
Processing done in APP and Darktable.
M31 Andromeda
My first try with Pentax astrotracer
Pentax K-1 and samyang 135mm t2.2
20sec * 200 stack
AstroPixelProcessor and photoshop
Here's another supernova, this time in the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 a whopping 130 million light-years from us. Similar to the one in my previous photo, this one, SN 2021hpr, is also Type Ia, a "standard candle" some 5 billion times as bright as the Sun, which is why we can see it so far away. Kinda boring photo but pretty cool phenomenon.
Looks like the brightness currently is at about magnitude 15, by comparing to the known brightness of other stars in the frame. Several other galaxies are also in the image, though most are very faint and don't appear in the most familiar catalogs (Messier, NGC, IC) except for one: UGC 5570. Also a couple of stars in our Galaxy are bright enough to be in the HD catalog of bright stars.
This galaxy also hosted several other supernovae recently, the latest just this year, but that one has become much fainter than what I'm able to photograph. The usual frequency of supernovae in most galaxies is more like one every 100 years or so, so it's pretty unusual to get so many. Our Milky Way Galaxy is way overdue for a supernova though, by several hundred years, so keep watching the sky!37 exposures, 4 minutes each (108 min. total), ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera (cooled to -15ºC, gain 150, dark, flat, dark flat frames), Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 lens @200mm, iOptron CEM25P drive, ASIAir controller, processed with AstroPixelProcessor, Lightroom and Photoshop.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro Hypercam 585C OSC (Offset:6 / Gain:158)
HDR mode on
80 x 120sec. subs (2hr 40min.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
Also known as the Witch's Broom
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Player One Uranus-C OSC (Offset:20 / Gain:60)
UV/IR filter
30 x 170sec. subs (85 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Siril, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
Canon 1100D Fullspectrum CLS CCD Tecnosky 70/420 ED 1X; Skywatcher AZEQ5
ISO 1600 - Exp: 11h10' RGB (70x10') - 5h HAlpha 35nm (30x10') ASI120MC guide; Darks & Flats & Bias
APP + PS (Astronomy Tools; Tonalitymasks) + LR
Provincia di Siena, 01-03-05-06/08/2019
First light with the Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5
Altair Astro 533C PROTEC OSC (Offset: 64 / Gain: 101 / HCG On)
28 x 120sec. subs (56 mins.)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, GraXpert and Affinity Photo
This 3-part mosaic covers a spectacular region of the constellation Vulpecula and was a very enjoyable summer project: the 'Coathanger Cluster,' the 'Loch Ness Nebula,' and many more LDNs and LBNs, which seem to float on an endless sea of stars.
The 'Coathanger Cluster' (also known as Brocchi's Cluster or Collinder 399) is an asterism of 10 stars. Of these, 6 stars appear to be lined up, but it is believed that the stars are not gravitationally bound to each other.
Several LDNs and LBNs (LBN 133 & 134, LDN 768, 769, 772, 773, 774, 775, 779) form the dark nebula structures that stand out against the starry backdrop and resemble the shape of the 'Loch Ness Monster.'
Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB: 190 x 60" (3h 10'), 191 x 60" (3h 11'), 200 x 60" (3h 20')
Total: 9h 41‘
Darks, Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight
30*120 sec subs taken with ASI1600MM and Sigma 70-200mm lens. Camera at 0 degrees C. Some walking noise in the image which is strange as the mount was polar aligned with a Pole Master.
This target could do with longer subs but the Star Adventurer can't handle it. (when its badly polar aligned)
Calibrated lights only in AstroPixel Processor.
Needs more signal.....
Mars in conjunction with the Pleiades (M45) taken at Kelling Heath Spring Star Party. This object was very low so the raw images suffered from gradients from the 'claggy' atmosphere at low elevations and from the tops of the trees encroaching in the image as streaks of dark blurs. These were fixed using Astro Pixel Processor (a trial version but based on this I will be buying it as it is significantly better (but slower and more complicated) than the free Deep Sky Stacker.
IC1848 Soul Nebula.
Soul nebula IC1848, narrowband processed. The stars are forming in the soul of the Queen of Ethiopia. More specifically, in a star-forming region called Soul Nebula can be found in the constellation Cassiopeia, a constellation Greek mythology identified as the arrogant wife of a king who has long ruled the lands around the top river Nile. the Soul nebula contains several open clusters of stars, an intense radio source known as W5 and huge bubbles formed by winds from massive young stars. Located about 6,500 light-years away, the Soul Nebula spans about 100 light years.
Technical data:
Remote Observatory "FarLightTeam"
Team: Jesús M. Vargas, Bittor Zabalegui,José Esteban, Marc Valero.
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106 ED 530mm f/5
CCDs: QSI683 wsg8
Filters: Baader Planetarium - Halpha-SII-OIII
Mount: 10Micron GM1000 HPS
Imaging Software: Voyager
Processing Software: PixInsight-AstroPixelProcessor
Imaging Data:
Captured through 12 December 2021 to 21 February 2022, ( Fregenal de la Sierra ) Badajoz, Spain.
Image composed of a Mosaic of 2 tiles:
Ha: 94x1200"
SII-OIII: 147x1200"
Darks, flats, bias
Located in the constellation Cassiopeia is the B5V star 68-Cas, also known as HD4142, HIP 3478 and HR189. The image is made up from RGB frames each with an exposure of 300s and two 360s luminescence exposures. The camera used was an Atik 314L+ mono CCD camera called to -15 deg C coupled to a Skywatcher 120ED refractor.
La famosa galassia Vortice (Whirlpool) M51 che si trova nella Costellazione dei Cani da Caccia, a 31 milioni di anni luce dal sistema solare sembra toccarsi con la sua compagna in basso NGC-5195.
Setup SkyWatcher Heq5 goto, rifrattore Svbony SV503 102ed, camera Qhy183, impostata a -5 gradi, gain 11 offsett 30 filtro Svbony CLS, camera guida Asi 120mm teleguida 60/240.
Tot. Integrazione ore 16:00 risultato della somma di 240Light da 240” più Dark, Flat e DarkFlat.
Software di acquisizione Ekos tramite dispositivo raspberry e OS StellarMate.
Software somma e elaborazione, AstroPixelProcessor, Pixinsight.
Bortle 7.2.
Cieli Sereni
ZWO AM5
ZWO ASI2600MC PRO (-10C)
ZWO ASIAir
Stella Mira 90ED CF APO
120s x 60 subs (2hr)
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor and Affinity Photo
The Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 101 (M101), is one of the best known spiral galaxies in the night sky.
M101 is a grand design spiral galaxy (a spiral galaxy with prominent and well-defined spiral arms) located in the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is about 170,000 light years in diameter, which makes it roughly 70 percent larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way.
It is approximately 20.9 million light years distant from Earth, which means that we are seeing it as it was about 20.9 million years ago.
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Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Plus 256G
Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C
Filter: Optolong L-Pro filter
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam
Guide via: ZWO OAG
Stacked from:
Lights 93 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Darks 30 at 120 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Flats 30 at 1.08 seconds, gain 101, temp -10C
Dark Flats 30 at 1.08 seconds gain 101 temp -10C
Bortle 4 sky.
Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor.
Processed in PixInsight
Added captions in Photoshop CS4
NGC 281, shot with:
Redcat 51
ZWO ASI533MC
Optolong L-Ultimate
ASI120MM / ZWO 30mm f4
ZWO AM5 Mount
Processed in:
AstroPixelProcessor, PixInsight, Photoshop
114 5-minute frames
This is not final yet! Will add more frames as I shoot more. Goal is 100+ frames (5 minutes each)
Sh2-155 s a diffuse nebula in the constellation Cepheus, within a larger nebula complex containing emission, reflection, and dark nebulosity. At an estimated distance of 725 parsecs (2400 ly), Sh2-155 is an ionized H II region with ongoing star formation activity.
SkyWatcher 80ED, IDAS NBZ dual-narrowband filter
112 * 300s lights
128 darks, flats and bias calibration frames
At 9hr20 the OIII signal was still very weak and tricky to process, requiring a lot of noise-reduction trickery. I'll definitely have to return to this target again.
The colour palette is particularly weird. Normal HOO tends to be strident reds and blues; HaHOO makes for paler yellow-gold and cyan colours. After a bit of playing around, this formula of my own gives excellent cold blue-green tonality instead.
Available as prints, cards and more via the website: shiny.photo/photo/Sharpless-Sh2-155---The-Cave---Nebula-6...
B86, the Ink Spot, is a Dark Nebula in Sagittarius that obscures the light from the background stars of the milky way. On the left lies the Open Cluster NGC 6520.
Object: NGC 6520 + B 86 (Ink Spot)
Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total ~1.3h, R 20x60sec, G 20x60sec, B 20x60sec, L 40x60sec, L (derived from RGB), 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel
Date: 2018-07-13
Location: ATHOS Centro Astronómico S.L., La Palma
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.062: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Calibration, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 19.1.5: Curves, Masked Dynamic (Saturation), Cosmetic Star Repair, Shadows/Highlights, Curves, Masked Dynamic (Saturation), Nik Output Sharpener
M106, also known as NGC4258, UGC7353 and PGC39600.
"Messier 106 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. M106 contains an active nucleus classified as a Type 2 Seyfert, and the presence of a central supermassive black hole has been demonstrated from radio-wavelength observations of the rotation of a disk of molecular gas orbiting within the inner light-year around the black hole."
- Wikipedia
Shooting Location :
* 51° N 3° E
* bortle class 5 backyard
Object Information
* Type : Spiral Galaxy
* Size : 135,000 lightyears in diameter
* Magnitude : 8.4
* Location (J2000.0): RA 12h 18m 57s / DEC +47° 18' 14"
* Approximate distance : 7.3 million parsecs / 23.7 million lightyears
Hardware
* Mount : Celestron CGX
* Imaging Scope : TS Optics 80mm f/6 APO FPL53
* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM
* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm + Baader SII 8.5nm + Baader LRGB
* Corrector : TS-Optics Flattener/Reducer 0.79x
* Guide Scope : Omegon 50mm f/4
* Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 290MM
Exposures
* Gain : 111
* Sensor Temperature : -20°C
* Light Frames :
- Baader Luminance : 152x 180sec
- Baader Red : 32x 180sec
- Baader Green : 32x 180sec
- Baader Blue : 32x 180sec
* Flat Frames :
- Baader L : 30x
- Baader R : 30x
- Baader G : 30x
- Baader B : 30x
* Dark Frames : 100x
* Total Integration Time : 12h36m
* Capture Dates : 2020-03-21 & 2020-03-25
Capture Software
* ZWO ASIair (Original)
Processing Software
* PixInsight
* AstroPixelProcessor
* Topaz Denoise AI
* Adobe Photoshop
Centaurus A is located about 11.5 million light years from Earth. It took light 11.5 million years to make its long journey to Earth. NGC 5128 is located in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies near to our Local Group of galaxies. The galaxy is about 60,000 light years in diameter which is about 60% the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 5128 is located in the skies of the southern hemisphere. It appears as a greyish smudge that is easily visible in a pair of binoculars in the night sky.
The Centaurus A Galaxy is considered to be two galaxies in mid-collision. One galaxy is elliptically shaped (spherically shaped) and the other is a spiral galaxy (disk shaped) that is viewed edge-on the Flickr photo. The dark dust band cutting across Centaurus A belongs to the spiral galaxy. The opposite ends of the dust band in the photo have been distorted as the result the of the mutual gravitational tidal forces between the two colliding galaxies.
Centaurus A is an example of a starburst galaxy. Starburst galaxies have a much higher rate of new star formation in them compared to normal galaxies like our Milky Way Galaxy. In the case of Centaurus A, the mechanism that produces the high star formation rate is the increased presence of shock waves in the spiral galaxy’s interstellar medium that is triggered by the gravitational interactions between the elliptical and spiral galaxy during the collision.
Centaurus A has a very active galactic nucleus. This is a sign of a supermassive black hole (SBH) at its center. The SBH is estimated to contain about 55 million solar masses. The activity of the SBH is manifested by two oppositely directed beams of X-rays and radio waves that are almost perpendicular to the spiral galaxy’s disk. The jets extend out to about 70,000 light years from Centaurus A’s center. The jets are generated by the disk of matter, an accretion disk, circling the SBH at such high speeds that it produces a magnetic beam-like structure that focus some of the material in the rotating disk away from the SBH at speeds close to the speed of light. The colliding matter in the jets produces X-rays and radio waves making Centaurus A which makes NGC 5128 one of the “brightest” radio sources in the sky. The jets are not visible in the Flickr photo since the astrograph’s camera detects visible light. X-ray and radio telescopes detect the jets.
The T30 astrograph located at iTelescope’s Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia was used to acquire imaging data from NGC 5128. T30 is a remotely controlled robotic astrograph that is controlled over the Internet by members of iTelescope. The imaging data was download to my home computer in the suburbs of Washington, DC for processing.
T30 consists of a PlaneWave CDK20 telescope and a Finger Lakes Instrumentation FLI PL6303E Monochrome CCD camera. The telescope is 508mm (20 inch) diameter and has a photographic speed of F/6.8. AstroDon Luminace, Red, Green, and Blue filters were inserted between the telescope and camera to produce the images needed to be combined to produce the single true color Flickr image of NGC 5128. At total of 3.8 hours of 5-minute exposures were combined using Astro Pixel Processor and PixInsight (PI) dedicated astrophotography software programs on my home PC. Adobe Photoshop 2021 was used to make tweaks in color and saturation to the output of the PI image.
60 exposures, 60 sec. each
Explore Scientific ED102 102mm f/7 apochromat refractor
Stellarvue 0.8x reducer/flattener (571mm fl)
ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled color CMOS camera, gain 200, bin 2 -10ºC
IDAS DTD light pollution filter
ZWO EAF autofocuser
iOptron CEM25P mount
ZWO ASIAir Pro controller
auto-guided, SVBONY SV2165 30mm f/4 guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
Processed in Astro Pixel Processor, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop
#astrophotography #deepskyphotography #CometLemmon
Globular Cluster M 22 in the constellation Sagittarius, near the galactic center. It is some 10,000 light years away from earth and one of the brightest and largest Globular Clusters in the sky.
Object: M 22
Optics: Lacerta Newton 12" F4 + 3" Wynne-Corrector
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MM Pro @-20°C, Gain=53, Offset=10
Filter: ZWO EFW 7x36mm, ZWO 36mm Filters
Exposure: total ~0.5h, R 21x30sec, G 21x30sec, B 22x30sec, L (derived from RGB), 200 Bias, 40 Darks, 40 Flats per channel
Date: 2018-07-12, 2018-07-13
Location: ATHOS Centro Astronómico S.L., La Palma
Capture: Sequence Generator Pro
Guiding: Off-Axis, ASI120MM, PHD2
Image Acquisition: Stephan Schurig
Image Processing: Stephan Schurig
AstroPixelProcessor 1.062: Calibration, Registration, Normalization, Integration, Channel Combination, Background Calibration, Star Colors Correction, Auto Digital Development
Photoshop 19.1.5: Curves, Exposure (Offset), Masked Nik Dfine 2 Denoise, Masked Dynamic (Dynamic, Saturation), Star Shrink, Curves, HighPass Sharpening
Three Messier objects: M17, M18, and M24 in the Milky Way. Nikon 300mm f/4 lens, ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera. 12 5-minute exposures.
A stack of 59 3 second images taken with the Pentax M300/4 green star at F whatever the first stop is right after F/4. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor
An image in Ha RGB
This nebula according to Glaxy Map
is
"GRS 305.40 +00.20 (Kes 18), often named simply G305, is a major star formation region associated with several HII regions, the star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2, an estimated 31 O stars and the Wolf-Rayet star WR 48a. It may be one of the most massive star formation regions known in the Milky Way"
Location : Bortle 6
Equipment
Sharpstar z4/Antlia 3 nm Ha filter/ Antlia Triband RGB filter/ZWO 533 Mm pro -for H-alpha /6/533 MC pro for RGB colour/ASIAIR/HEQ5/ASIAIR
Data
just under one and a half hours in RGB (5 minute subs)
3 hours in Ha (10 minute subs)
10 minutes in RGB ( 60 second subs) -for stars
Processing
stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, processed in PixInsight
Processing Notes
Ha and RGB separately
Stack
register Ha, RGB long and RGB short stacks
Dynamic Crop
Gradient Correction
Blur X -correction
Image Solver
SPCC
Starnet++
Nebula
BlurX
NoiseX
GHS
NoiseX
Curves Transformation
Stars
SetiAstro star stretch script
Curves Transformation after applying a luminance mask
Stars and starless combined with Pixelmath
Minor tweaking including a final crop - in Photoshop CS6
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy
Equipment:
Celestron AVX
Baader Moon and Sky Glow with IR cut filter
ES ED 102 FCD 100 Scope
SSAG Cope and Camera
ZWO 183mc Pro
Pegasus Focus Cube
Software:
SGP Acquisition
Sharp Cap - Initial Focus and Polar Align
AstropixelProcessor for stacking and initial stretch
Finished in Photoshop
I'll have to look to see how much integration, 3-minute subs for sure though.