cuivenion Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 This is M82 the Cigar Galaxy in Ursa Major, captured in the early hours of 29/10/2018. Equipment used was: Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI224 Scope: Skywatcher 130PDS Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Guiding: Altair GPCAM v1 Colour with Finderguider and PHD2 software. Capture Software: Sharpcap 3.2 Processing Software: Deep Sky Stacker (stacking), Pixinsight (processing) -150 minutes of 30 second lights -50 x Darks -100 x flats -100 x Dark flats As always any feedback and constructive criticism welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.h.f.wilkinson Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Very nice indeed. I must have another bash with my planetary cameras on these DSOs (I have only tried M51 and M13 to date) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuivenion Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 50 minutes ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said: Very nice indeed. I must have another bash with my planetary cameras on these DSOs (I have only tried M51 and M13 to date) Cheers Michael. Have you posted your images? I'd like to have a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul mc c Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Looks brilliant.....is there any tutorials on using the 224 for deep sky anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuivenion Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 30 minutes ago, paul mc c said: Looks brilliant.....is there any tutorials on using the 224 for deep sky anywhere. Thanks, not that I've seen. I just use it as a traditional camera although I tend to use shorter exposures as the read noise is very low. You have to use darks because of the amp glow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael.h.f.wilkinson Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 1 hour ago, cuivenion said: Cheers Michael. Have you posted your images? I'd like to have a look. Here they are, both with ASI178MM and 80mm F/6 triplet. M13 is an LRGB image, M51 just luminance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuivenion Posted October 30, 2018 Author Share Posted October 30, 2018 Cracking images. That pixel size gives a great image scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomberbaz Posted October 30, 2018 Share Posted October 30, 2018 Great that Michael, loving M51, I prefer the more natural look these days over the massively processed images I am seeing more and more of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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