DSO test with ASI662 MC (no cooling)

[fwm891]

Just recently purchased a ZWO/ASI662 MC planetary camera. No cooling.

Bought from FLO for planetary imaging but whilst waiting for Saturn and later Jupiter to clear trees I thought I'd see what the 662 was like for a DSO namely M27 The Dumbbell neb.

Kit:  TS/GSO RC8 with a 0.67x reducer fitted giving a pixel scale of 0.55 "/pixel so a little over sampled. Mount: iOptron CEM 60 (non EC).

Captured with Astroart 8.0, processed with PI, RGB channels split at debayering stage and recombined later.

6x 240s subs. Camera showing as +21.7°C

Image is uncropped but reduced in size for forum.

First go at Jupiter with the 662 or any camera - so more practice needed for planetary stuff....

Edited August 30, 2022 by fwm891
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Continued with more subs otherwise same set-up as above.

Processing the image back from LRGB channels to a final composite took a bit of playing with. Rather than adding the channel selection as LRGB it turned out to get the nearest colour rendition required: LBLL in the LRGB channels respectively?

Still playing...