• Equipment:

    Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED

    Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro

    ZWO ASI2600mm Pro Imaging Camera

    ZWO 7 position 36mm Electronic Filter Wheel

    ZWO 36mm L, R, G, B filters

    Orion 60mm Guide Scope

    ZWO ASI290mm-mini Guide Scope

    Pegasus Astro Ultimate Power Box

    Pegasus Astro Focuser

    Pegasus Astro Falcon Rotator

    Acquisition:

    L – 180 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)

    L – 77 x 300s (-10° C, Gain 0)

    R – 60 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)

    G – 60 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)

    B – 60 x 120s (-10° C, Gain 0)

    Total Integration Time: 18hr 25min

    All filter groups:

    Calibrate all images with 100 darks, 20 flats, 1000 bias

    WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script with Drizzle x2 & Autocrop

    Import into GraXpert for gradient removal

    Work on RGB:

    ChannelCombination RGB

    ImageSolver script

    SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

    NoiseXTerminator

    BlurXTerminator

    Histogram Tranformation

    SCNR, Invert & SCNR

    Work on Luminance:

    BlurXTermiantor

    Histogram Tranformation

    Curves

    LRGBCombine

    Curves

    DynamicCrop for composition

    Curves for final adjustments

    Save as JPEG for posting

  • Extremely well done. Everything about this image is so precisely executed. Stars are nice and round. Post processing is really subtle, but hella detailed. Great job & thanks for sharing.