Here is my Horsehead shot from last night. It is nowhere near what I wanted but a big improvement from my last attempt last year. It's about 48 minutes of data but I was shooting for about two hours or so. The problem was that my guiding camera came into contact with my controller mount without me realizing it, and I couldn't figure out (for about 45 mins) why I was seeing error messages with my PHD guiding software. I thought it was software-based but realized too late that it wasn't! Oh well. I wanted to go out again tonight but there are some high level clouds loitering around the area.
- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes 80mm ED Refractor
- Imaging Camera: Nikon D7000
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval Refractor
- Guiding Camera: Meade DSI-C
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Exposures: 4 * 12 minute lights
- ISO 400
- Aligned and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Post-Processing in GIMP (contrast, saturation and unsharp mask)
Spectacular!
ReplyDeleteHi Phil! It's a beautiful picture! I really love it. Congratulations. Great job!
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Rober
Thanks a lot, everyone! Would love to see more red here but it could be local light pollution hindering my attempts in that regard.
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How did I miss seeing this until now? This looks great!
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