David_Scotland Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Another clear night and some of that astronomical darkness. Started off with Narrowband imaging, some technical issues later. 17x2m subs for a total integration time of 34 minutes, darks from the library and no flats IC1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula RASA8 Altair 183C Pro L-Enhance filter Processed in Pixinsight When i finsihed the above noticed M31 was in my FOV between the 2 big trees at the bottom of my garden Managed to get 182 x 15sec for a total integration of 45 minutes, no darks or flats Same hardware as above, just with an L-Pro instead of the L-Enhance. Happy with the data, nice and clean. Bit unsure of the processing, i'll need to get more data and re-process. Current image looks a bit washed out 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter shah Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 great set of images 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stargazer33 Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Nice! Andromeda looks a bit magenta to me. You've controlled the core well in your processing. Nice placement in the frame too. A 0.7x or 0.8x reducer would give you a nice amount of space (do you see what I did there 🙄) around the galaxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul M Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Great image. You even resolved the dust lanes in M110. Not something you see very often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assouptro Posted August 14, 2021 Share Posted August 14, 2021 Great images for such short subs! what’s your sky like for light Pollution? cheers Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Scotland Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 18 minutes ago, assouptro said: Great images for such short subs! what’s your sky like for light Pollution? cheers Bryan Bortle 6 normally, there is a petro-chemical plant usually in that direction which burns of excess gas, but no output last night which helped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Scotland Posted August 14, 2021 Author Share Posted August 14, 2021 4 hours ago, Stargazer33 said: Nice! Andromeda looks a bit magenta to me. You've controlled the core well in your processing. Nice placement in the frame too. A 0.7x or 0.8x reducer would give you a nice amount of space (do you see what I did there 🙄) around the galaxy. Yeah, not enamoured with the processing, going to capture another couple hours and spend some time processing this. For some reason i find galaxy processing hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David_Scotland Posted August 15, 2021 Author Share Posted August 15, 2021 Wasn't too happy with the previous image so gathered more data and reprocessed. 468x15second exposures - total integration 1hour 57minutes 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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