Thor's Helmet HOO (now with twice the data)

[carastro]

I managed to salvage the data from my second camera Atik428EX where I had accidentally left it on 3 x binning and basically increased the resolution in Photoshop so I could combine it with my data from my Atik460EX camera.

The FOV was different which necessitated a rotate and crop.
I think this is now smoother as the imaging time has doubled.

Here is the link to the first thread with half the data.  

 

Total data as follows:
20 x 600 Ha
17 x 600 Oiii
Atik 460EX on WOZS71 and Atik428EX on ED80 both with FR x 0.8
HEQ5

Bringing the total imaging time now from 3h 10m to 6h 10m

[Skipper Billy]

Well done Carol - too low to the horizon for me to even think about it!!

[carastro]

Thanks David.

[Pompey Monkey]

Wow Carole! How dark is your dark site?

You've given me hope that I can image this from Hampshire!

[carastro]

It has had readings of something like SQM 21.8 and my dark site is in East Sussex.

Carole 

[Allinthehead]

The extra data has certainly helped smooth it out. Will you keep going?

[carastro]

Thanks Richard.  I find it difficult to get to a dark location in the winter months when this is in the sky and there are a number of other targets in the same area I also want to do so it will have to wait it's turn if I do get any chances.  

For example I want to finish off NGC2170 as my first priority, then Witch Head, Boogie Man and M42 which I haven't done for around 7 years and never done from a dark location.   So in summary might have to wait for a while.

Carole 

 

[peter shah]

lovely capture Carole

[carastro]

Thank you Peter.

Carole