Neowise F3 - an Imaging Adventure

bdlbug · July 23, 2020

The last couple of weeks has been a new experience in imaging. I have on this forum and in general viewed an amazing number of exceptional images and fantastic locations, do you get comet envy?, but like many on the forum I have by necessity had to remain local. With exception of a quick trip to South Downs to visit elderly parent-in-laws. So below is my simple story in images from an exciting early Saturday morning to a light polluted experiment near a car park of dubious repute.......

I used Samyang 14mm for the first wide field
I used Samyang135mm at f2 for all the othe rimages except for a quick experiment with my AT72Ed telescope, that didn't really work that well so reverted back to 135mm
All used my old but very serviceable and unmodified Cannon 600D mounted on a reasonably polar aligned a Skywatcher Star Adventurer.

The longest exposure I could take without completely losing everything in light pollution was 20seconds, most of the images are about 6-12minutes made up of 20s and 10s subs. I use APP to stack and calibrate with Darks,Flats and Bias, then processed to extreme within PS, using AstroFlat_Pro and Topaz denoise.

thanks for looking ,
Bryan

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