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I shot this area with this exact framing last December, but wanted to improve my image. This time my focus was better (I didn't have a Bahtinov mask then), I shot and processed raw (jpeg last time), and I used Astro Pixel Processor tools for processing.
The only thing that wasn't better this time around was my tracking - I only used 50% of my subs, many of which still had slightly trailed stars; I think my balance was off. I would have liked more integration time, but still got a result I'm happy with using only 35 minutes of data.
Fujifilm X-T10, Samyang 135mm f/2.0 ED UMC @ f2.0, ISO 1600, 35 x 60 sec, tracking with iOptron SkyTracker Pro, stacking with DeepSkyStacker, editing with Astro Pixel Processor and GIMP, taken on Oct. 6, 2019 under Bortle 3/4 skies.
Jan 7 2020 edit: A very slight re-edit - I monkeyed with the original stack a bit less this time - I like the Horsehead Nebula better in this version.
Data for this was captured at the end of an imaging session back in September and has been hiding on my hard drive ever since!
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Location: Killygordon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Time: 00:00 - 01:00
Date: 22 Sep 2012
Target: Andromeda Galaxy
Exposures: 4 x 10 minute exposures (10 x Darks, 5 x Flats)
Equipment:
Mount- Celestron CG5-GT (unguided)
Camera- Self-modified Canon 1000D
Telescope- Celestron Oynx 80ED
Additional- Astronomik cls clip LP filter.
Stacking & Processing: DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop CS5
This is the Great Orion Nebula which spans 14 light years across. This Nebula is a nursery for stars that are only 1 million years old. This makes them practically infants when you compare them to our own Sun, with an age of 5 billion years. The Nebula sits approximately 1,500 light years away from us.
Stack of 20 light frames in polluted urban skies. 30 Second exposures.
Canon 7D mark II + Canon 70-200 f2.8 IS II lens @ 200mm f3.5
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It's 3 panel mosaic from data which I was gathering for 5 nights (1 night for main panel and 2 nights for each arm). Each panel was drizzled 2x in DeepSkyStacker what resulted in 130 Mpix image after the final crop.
Equipment:
Scope: GSO 8" f/4
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6 R
Camera: Canon 600D mod
Guide scope: ZWO 60/280mm
Guide camera: ZWO ASI 120MC-S
Coma corrector: Baader Mark III MPCC
Filters: Baader UV/IR Cut (L) 2"
Acquisition:
Lights: 57x180" ISO 800 for each panel
Calibration frames: 50x Darks (for each panel), 50x Flats, 50x Bias
Total integration time: 8h 33m
Localization: Small village near Płock, Poland (Bortle 5)
Software:
Guiding: PhD2
Capture: APT
Mount control: Stellarium (ASCOM)
Postprocessing: Deep Sky Stacker, Pixinsight, Photoshop, Lightroom
Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 30m (14 frames) ISO 800 RGB
Focus Method: Prime focus
Telescope Aperature/Focal Length: 203×812mm
Mount: LXD75
Telescope: Meade 8" Schmidt-Newtonian
Guided: Yes - PHD Guiding
Stacked: DeepSkyStacker
Adjustments: cropped/leveled in Photoshop
Location: Flintstone, GA
This is NGC2841 The Tiger's Eye galaxy.
First discovered by William Herschel 9th of March 1788.
It's an unbarred spiral galaxy which can be found in the constellation of Ursa Major (the Great Bear).
It's 46 million light years away and approximately 150,000 light years across, so, quite big.
Imaged taken 5th of January 2022 from my back garden.
Boring techie bit.
Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector
HEQ5 pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup
Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.
Canon 135 f/2 (stopped down to 2.8) lens attached to SX Trius 694 + Baader 7nm Ha filter piggybacked to main scope on a CEM60 was used to capture eleven subframes at 300 seconds each. Stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in StarTools and Photoshop CS2
Taken 07/01/22
starting astrophotography (third night session)
M51
Team johannes-werner:
Teleskop 9,25’’ Schmidt-Cassegrain von Celestron mit 2.350 mm BW (Johannes)
Camera: D850, Software: DeepSkyStacker + Lightroom + Photoshop (Werner)
90 lights and 10 darks (bias and flats next sessions)
Located 6,400 light years away in the constellation of Orion, the Monkey Head is an emission nebula and home to the open star cluster NGC 2175.
The nebula acts as a womb for new stars to be born. Those new stars then radiate such immense energy that blasts in to the surrounding gas and dust that makes up the nebula. This has the effect of not only clearing away the surrounding nebula from the newly born star but, causes the gas and dust in other areas to be pushed together. When enough of this material is pushed together it allows gravity to take hold and pull more and more of it in. When enough of it is pulled together there's a good chance another star will be born.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 70% of 30 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Affinity Photo.
Canon 500D
Sigma 120-400 @250mm
ISO 800-1600
f 7.1
frames of 90 seconds
total exposure about 67 minutes
dark bias flat
Object name: Pincushion Cluster/Football Cluster/Black Arrow Cluster/Wishing Well Cluster - RGB+SHO
Constellation: Carina
Object ID: NGC3532, NGC3503, NGC3572, NGC3590, NGC3576, NGC3579
Coordinates: RA: 11h08m10.081s, DEC: -59°35’52.128”
Apparent FOV/Radius: 3.07° x 2.05° (184.2 x 123.0 arc-min)/1.847°
FOV Angle: Up is 316.7° E of N
Object Apparent Dimensions: 03°04’12” x 02°03’00” (184.2 x 123.0 arc-min)
Exposure Date: 4, 6, 8, 9, 18, 19, 23 April 2025
Sky Bortle Class: 5
Distaance: ~8,500 LY
Magnitude: 1.0
Exposures: Hα:111x90s, OIII:100x120s, SII:78x180s, R:210x60s, G:265x60s, B:180x60s @ HCG2CMS:62/OFS:25 (20h55m30s)
Telescope: Celestron C8 HyperStar V4
Actual Focal length: 389.73mm (f1.9)
Camera: QHY268M -5°C BIN1x1
Resolution: 1.99”/px
Guiding: ToupTek G3M220M on BOSMA refractor guide scope and GPUSB.
Mount: CGEM-HT
Capture & Guide Software: Astrophotography Tool 4.60, PHD2.6.13dev7 Guiding
Processing Software: Siril 1.2.6, DeepSkyStacker 5.1.10, Photoshop CS4, GraXpert 3.1.0rc2, Starnet V2, Cosmic Clarity Suite 6.5AI3.5.
Taken with a Sigma AF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO DG at 200mm and f/5, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron Advanced VX mount. Consists of 35 light and 35 dark frames, each a 90-second exposure at ISO 800, and 21 flat frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Target:Bode's Cigar and Garland Galaxies (M81 M82 NGC3077) in the Constellation of Ursa Major, about 12 million light years away.
Location:16,17/3/21 St Helens UK Bortle 8, 13% moon.
Aquisition:18x 180s Red, 18x 180s Green, 20x 180s Blue, 60x 60s Lum, 18x 600s Ha. Total integration 6h 48m.
Equipment:Imaging: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED, HEQ5 Pro, Zwo ASI1600MM Pro, EFW, HaLRGB, LPro.
Guiding: Skywatcher 9x50 Finder with ZWO ASI120MM.
Software:Capture: NINA, EQMod, PHD2.
Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Siril, Starnet++.
C9.25 @f/10,Atik 314L and SX filterwheel/OAG (Lodestar guide camera),Baader 2" narrowband filters (Ha and OIII) riding on an EQ6 was used to produce this bi-colour image of Mag 13 Planetary nebula NGC 7048.
Stacking in Deepskystacker,colour combined in Maxim DL4 (Ha,OIII,OIII) and processed in PS CS2. No darks nor flats used.
Taken 25/10/21
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104, NGC 4594) is a spiral galaxy about 30 Mly from Earth. It is estimated to contain 100 billion stars and is 25,000 ly in diameter. This color image is processed from LRGB images taken from the CHI-1 El Sauce Observatory in Chile.
Image processed from LRGB images from Telescope Live (my first experience with Telescope Live)
Total Exposure Time: 1.5 hrs
LRGB light frames - 300sec exposures
Date: February 18. 2023
Telescope:
PlaneWave CDK24
Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)
Focal Length: 3962 mm
F-ratio: 6.5
CMOS Camera:
Model: QHY 600M Pro
Pixel Size: 3.76s μm
Pixel Array: 9576 x 6382 pixels
My processing software: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop
The Leo Tripet, about 35 million light years away from us, here on Earth.
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s @ f/5.6
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
15 x 240" for 60.5 minutes of exposure time.
10 dark frames
20 flats frames
20 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggy back my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I had to throw away about 5 frames due to satellites passing through or near my targets. This was low on the horizon and when I came out to end my imaging session I found my guidescope not being able to guide and had to delete my last 3 frames becasue the images were not sharp. It was a fun learning experience, looking forward to trying again when this target is higher in the sky.
My first reasonably successful photographic meteor hunt! Took a nice spot at the beach, set up the camera and enjoyed the Perseid meteor show. 4 of them also ended up visible in the 89x 30s frames acquired using the Samsung NX30 with the 16 mm f/2.4 wide angle lens (stopped down to f/3.2 to reduce distortion at the edges). ISO setting was 1600. The camera was mounted on a clockwork barndoor tracker. Post-processing included stacking the 60 best frames for the starfield background in DeepSkyStacker, as well as 4 consecutive images each with manual alignment in Photoshop for the sea and tree foreground. Finally the correctly aligned meteors were masked and mounted back into the image.
Acquired on 2021-08-13.
Barnard’s Merope Nebula (or IC 349) is located directly adjacent to the star Merope, often this area is heavily exposed burying this tiny object in the bright majesty of the Pleiades. It is listed as a 13th magnitude (visual brightness) nebula and is very close to Merope (about 0.06 light years). Merope is providing the dramatic lighting effects that you can see in the APOD image listed below.
Tech Specs: This image is composed of 32 x 15 second images at ISO 3200 with five dark and five bias frames. Meade LX90 12” telescope, Celestron CGEM-DX and Canon 6D camera at prime focus. DSS and ImagesPlus for processing. Imaging was done on November 4, 2016 from Weatherly, Pennsylvania.
Other Online Resources:
SEDS (messier.seds.org/more/m045_i349.html)
APOD (apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001206.html)
Sky and Telescope (www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/the-merope-nebula-and-i...)
10 x 4-minute manually off-axis guided exposures at ISO 1600.
Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
21 million light years from home.
Total exposure time: 99 mins
Telescope: Tele Vue-60 APO refractor
Mount: Vixen Super Polaris
First attempt at stacking images using the software SIRIL. There's a a bit of a learning curve associated with it, but initial results show a significant improvement over Deepskystacker.
I've had more opportunities to image in the last few weeks than I had for the previous 11 months, or so it seems :)
The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros, aka Caldwell 49 or NGC 2237. The open cluster in the middle is affectionately known as NGC 2244, or more formally Caldwell 50 :)
Another collab with Dave Williams, this time with him providing the Ha and Olll. Added 30% to red and blue respectively with this result, which I have to say I'm quite pleased with :) Better than the last effort I think, as the RGB was better, courtesy of my new go-faster kit :)
Camera: Canon 350Da
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106
Guiding Telescope: Celestron ED80
Mount: Takahashi EM200 Temma Jr
Autoguiding: Toucam 740K, PHD Guiding
Total exposure time: 1.6125 hours (5805 sec)
Exposures in detail:
24 x 242 sec , ISO 800 , 2008-07-30
Alignment and stacking: DeepSkyStacker
Final post-processing: Photoshop CS3
This was taken in Nova Scotia while on vacation in Aug.'15
Capture details are ISO 800
13 x 900sec
1 x 600sec
1 x 300sec
16 x flats
16 darks
Equipment
-Celestron AVX Mount
-150mm SkyWatcher Reflector
-Orion autoguider package
-Nikon D5100 (unmodified)
-SkyWatcher Coma Corrector
-AC adapter
_________
-Capture
PHD 2.4.1
BackyardNIKON
-Processing
DeepSkyStacker
PhotoshopElements12
Canon EOS 250D
Dátum / idő: 2020-09-12 22:02:08
Expoziciós idő: 248.5 sec
F-szám: F 4
Érzékenység ISO-ban: ISO 1600
Fókusztávolság: 18 mm
Skywatcher Star Adventurer mechanika (Pro Pack)
Cullmann Mundo állvány
5x light
5x dark
5x offset
1x előtér
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
24mm f2,8, ISO 100, 40sec.
20 Lightframes
10 Darkframes
10 Biasframes
auf Astromontierung, in Deepskystacker bearbeitet.
Trotz starken Mondlichts hat es funktioniert.
Jetzt fehlt nur noch eine Neumondnacht mit sternklarem Himmel!
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, and Celestron CG-4 mount. Consists of 29 40-second light frames and 24 40-second dark frames, 25 5-second light frames and 25 5-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 11 flat images, stacked in DeepSkyStacker and processed in Photoshop.
Processed as RRGB (ie, luminance from the Red channel)
Acquisition details:
OTA: Celestron 10" f/4.7 newtonian reflector, C10N
Filter: Astronomic CLS EOS-clip filter
Corrector: MPCC
Mount: Celestron CGEM DX
Camera: Canon 450d mod BCF, 59°F
Exposure: 93x2min ISO 1600
Guided with PHD, SSAG, Orion 50mm guide scope
Captured with BackyardEOS
Registered and stacked with DeepSkyStacker
Photographed from Round Rock TX (Orange zone)
Not the first time I've imaged this, but it's a tricky subject from the UK - as it's rather far South, so remains close to the horizon.
Manually, off-axis guided for 13 x 3-minute exposures at ISO 1600, f/4.
Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Registered and stacked using DeepSkyStacker; initial curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; final curves & colour-balance adjusted using Paint Shop Pro; noise reduction via CyberLink PhotoDirector.
14 x 4-minute manually off-axis guided exposures at ISO 1600.
Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames registered and stacked in DeepSkyStacker software; curves adjusted in Canon Photo Professional; noise reduction in CyberLink PhotoDirector.
The comet is still low in the twilight in the constellation Lynx, but this image, while still rather noisy, is an improvement on what I captured in June.
16 x 30-sec exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 3200 with an EOS 600D and Zeiss Jena 135mm f/3.5 lens on a Vixen Polarie star tracker. The frames were stacked on the comet in DeepSkyStacker, with curves adjustment and further noise reduction in post-processing. The image was also heavily cropped.
Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: Celestron 127/1500 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Camere di acquisizione: SVBONY SV305
Montature: Celestron SLT
Software: DeepSkyStacker · AutoStakkert! · photoshop
Accessorio: 2.5x barlow
Data:14 Novembre 2020
Ora: 23:04
Pose: 2862
FPS: 30,00000
Lunghezza focale: 3750
Seeing: 4
Trasparenza: 8
Image of NGC 7000 and IC 5070 (North America nebula and the Pelican nebula) in Cygnus taken using my modified Canon 1100D with Canon 135mm F/2 prime lens and CLS clip in filter riding on a Omegon Minitrack LX3 clockwork tracker. Camera controlled using wireless Intervalometer to take 68 subs at 30 seconds each,stacked in Deepskystacker and processed in Photoshop CS2. No dark nor flat frame subtraction.
Taken 22/07/01 23:34 UT
Equipment:
Celestron CGEM Mount
Nikon 500mm f/4 P Ai-s
Sony a7RIII (unmodified)
Altair 60mm Guide scope
GPCAM2 Mono Camera
Acquisition:
Taos, NM: my backyard - Bortle 3
12 x 240" for 48 minutes for exposure time.
5 dark frames
15 flats frames
15 bais frames
Guided
Software:
SharpCap
PHD2
DeepSkyStacker
Photoshop
My mount was polar aligned with SharpCap (what an amazing system for aligning). I'm not comfortable using my SCT as my lens yet. My solution is to piggy back my Sony a7RIII and adapted Nikon 500mm f/4 on a ADM dovetail rail on the top of my optical tube. I'm still new to autoguiding. I got some great detail of a galaxy with 3:30 second light frames. For this I stopped down the aperture to get diffraction spikes on the brighter stars and exposed my lights for 4 minutes. I used DeepSkyStacker to combine all frames and then processed the TIFF file in Photoshop using my skill set and relying on the famous Astronomy Tools Action Set.
Total exposure time: 1 hour 35 mins
Camera: Nikon D810A
Telescope: AT65EQ 420mm F/6.5 Quadruplet Astrograph
Mount: iOptron Zeq25GT
Light pollution filter: Astronomik CLS
Guiding software: PHD2 + ASI120MC + 60/280mm
Editing software: DeepSkyStacker 3.3.4, Photoshop CC, GradientXTerminator and HLVG.
Location: Home Observatory, Miri City.
M15 Globular star cluster.
First discovered in 1746 by an Italian named Jean-Dominique Maraldi. It's approximately 33,600 light years away in the constellation of Pegasus. M15 is one of the densest clusters yet discovered with many very hot blue stars and many of the cooler orange stars becoming more concentrated towards the core.
It was the first of only four globular clusters found to be hosting a planetary nebula. The one in M56 is named Pease 1, after it's discoverer Francis G. Pease in 1928.
It's also thought to contain a black hole at it's core, estimated to be 4,000 times the mass of our Sun.
I also had a little play with the 3D module in StarTools. It looks great using the cross eyed method, but when I save it then try loading to Facebook, it doesn't come out very well sadly.
Took the image with a Skywatcher 8" quattro and a Canon 1100D. Along with some other bits n bobs and lots of images stacked together. Processed everything together with DeepSkyStacker & StarTools.
Cep NGC7023
Fecha: 15-08-2020, de 20h48m a 23h40m U.T.
Lugar: Las Inviernas, Guadalajara
Temperatura ambiente: de +12.0ºC a +09.5ºC
Cámara: ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Óptica: Telescopio refractor Skywatcher ED120, de 120 mm de diámetro y 900 mm de distancia focal (f/7.5)
Montura: Skywatcher EQ6 Pro Synscan v.3.25
Guiado: Automático con QHY-5 mono y PHD Guiding v.1.14.0, utilizando un telescopio refractor Orion 80mm de diámetro a f/5.
Filtros: Ninguno.
Exposiciones:
17 imágenes de 600s cada una, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
en total, 2h50min.
30 darks de 600s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
30 bias de 0.001s, a -05ºC y 100 de ganancia
Software: APT Astro Photographic Tool v.3.82
DeepSkyStacker v.4.2.0
PixInsight LE 1.0
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Astronomy Tools v.1.6
StarNet++ v1.1
A reflection nebula in the constellation of Orion, often called The Running Man Nebula.
NGC1977 is actually made up of three nebulae, those being NGC1973, NGC1975 and NGC1977.
It was first discovered by William Herschel in 1786 and is roughly about 1,460 light years from us.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures, Gain110 at -20c
Best 75% of 80 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and processed in StarTools.
C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy from Dundalk, Ireland
Skywatcher 200PDS (1000mm)
Canon 1100D
4X 45s ISO 1600
Dark, Bias, Flats
Reg in DSS, stacked & processed in PI
Trying out all in one control software package N.I.N.A nighttime-imaging.eu/ last night with GSO 10" f/4 Newtonian on CEM60. SX Trius 694/filterwheel and OAG (Lodestar) and Baader MPCC coma corrector. Chose M27 as test target and set sequencer in the program to capture 6x300sec in both Ha and OIII. Both sets stacked in Deepskystacker and BiColour image assembled using Annie's Tools in Photoshop. No calibration frames used.
Image taken 14/07/21
Do you recognize the summer triangle on this picture ? A fictive figure whose summits are formed by the 3 brightest star of the summer night sky :
- Vega, from Lyra constellation (top)
- Deneb, from Cygnus constellation (bottom left)
- Altair, from Aquila constellation (middle right)
This picture has been obtained stacking 5 images of 5 minutes exposure each. Of course, an equatorial mount was used to offset the Earth rotating motion.
A 18-55 mm kit lens mounted on a Canon 600D camera were also used.
Technical Datas :
Canon 600D (unmodified filter) + 18-55 mm kit lens + meade lxd75 mount
18 mm
5 x 5 min
f/5.0
ISO 800
DSS & Lightroom editing
Location : France
Had a session on M42 the other night whilst testing the guiding on the QHY5 I've just acquired (works), and having done M42, and done it again, and again, I thought I'd drizzle into this. Only 19 subs before it disappeared behind a tree, so very noisy, but colourful nonetheless :) I really need a longer focal length, and a lot more subs, to do this justice.
Designated NGC 1973, 1975 and 1977 (the seventies), but more commonly known as The Running Man Nebula, this is just north of M42 in Orion.
Taken with a TMB92L, Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 33 130-second light frames and 33 130-second dark frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 32 flat and 50 bias frames. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
this is a single capture from August 2006, about one year ago, only now i'm learning astronomy processing and not a great capture, my 1st with a dsrl
this capture is taken with a LX10 meade fork and an astrocamera Baker-Schmidt d=20cm focal=400mm f/2 using my old Canon EOS 300D
exposure: 253 seconds - ISO 200
processing with Deepskystacker 2.6.3
raw processing:
Bayer matrix (no interp.)
stacking:
light - entropy weighted average (high dynamic range)
darkframe - auto adaptive weighted average
150 ED Apo triplet f7 and Atik 314L with motorised filterwheel.
8 subframes at 7 minutes apiece captured in Ha and again in OIII,stacked in Deepskystacker and colour comined (Ha,OIII,OIII) in Maxim DL4,finished in Photoshop. Image taken early hours of 1/12/16
Taken on September 25, 2011 near Butler, Missouri using an SBIG8300C camera mounted on a CGE1100 Telescope using Hyperstar (F/2). This is the sum of 16 ten minute images, stacked using DeepSkyStacker. The image was then processed with Photoshop CS2.
Guiding used PhD Guiding with an Orion Starshoot autoguider.