Equipment: AT8RC Sky-Watcher EQ8-Rh ZWO ASI1600mm Pro Imaging Camera ZWO 8 position 31mm Electronic Filter Wheel ZWO 31mm L, R, G, B filters Orion 60mm Guide Scope ZWO ASI290mm-mini Guide Scope Pegasus Astro Ultimate Power Box v2 Pegasus Astro Focuser Pegasus Astro Falcon Rotator Acquisition: L - 71 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0) R – 100 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0) G – 100 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0) B – 86 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0) Ha – 56 x 300s (-10° C, Gain 139) Total integration time: 16hr34min Processing in Pixinsight: All filter groups: Calibrate all images with 100 darks, 100 flats, 1000 bias WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script with Drizzle x2 Tranfer to Graxpert for gradient removal Luminance & Ha: BlurXTerminator NoiseXTerminator HistogramTransformation RGB: BlurXTerminator ChannelCombination ImageSolver script SpectrophotometricColorCalibration BlurXTerminator NoiseXTerminator HistogramTransformation SCNR on green CurveTransformation ChannelExtraction on Luminance Pixelmath to combine Luminance, Extracted Luminance, Ha StarXTerminator CurveTransformation NBRGBCombine Script to combine Luminance & Ha onto RGB HistogramTranformation with masks to bring out fainter arms of galaxy CurveTransformation DarkStructureEnhance DynamicCrop Transfer to Affinity Photo: Place Watermark Flatten Export as JPEG for posting
Equipment:
AT8RC
Sky-Watcher EQ8-Rh
ZWO ASI1600mm Pro Imaging Camera
ZWO 8 position 31mm Electronic Filter Wheel
ZWO 31mm L, R, G, B filters
Orion 60mm Guide Scope
ZWO ASI290mm-mini Guide Scope
Pegasus Astro Ultimate Power Box v2
Pegasus Astro Focuser
Pegasus Astro Falcon Rotator
Acquisition:
L - 71 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)
R – 100 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)
G – 100 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)
B – 86 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)
Ha – 56 x 300s (-10° C, Gain 139)
Total integration time: 16hr34min
Processing in Pixinsight:
All filter groups:
Calibrate all images with 100 darks, 100 flats, 1000 bias
WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script with Drizzle x2
Tranfer to Graxpert for gradient removal
Luminance & Ha:
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
HistogramTransformation
RGB:
BlurXTerminator
ChannelCombination
ImageSolver script
SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
BlurXTerminator
NoiseXTerminator
HistogramTransformation
SCNR on green
CurveTransformation
ChannelExtraction on Luminance
Pixelmath to combine Luminance, Extracted Luminance, Ha
StarXTerminator
CurveTransformation
NBRGBCombine Script to combine Luminance & Ha onto RGB
HistogramTranformation with masks to bring out fainter arms of galaxy
CurveTransformation
DarkStructureEnhance
DynamicCrop
Transfer to Affinity Photo:
Place Watermark
Flatten
Export as JPEG for posting