Hi All,
I'll join the "work in progress parade" and post this North America. My intent was to go two to three hours but guider problems (and sleep!) cut me back to about an hour. It's a combination of five minute (guided) and two minute (unguided) images. I hope to add more Ha and perhaps some color soon (and try and come somewhere near Tyler's recent amazing image of the area!). I tried dithering on the guided images which really did seem to help kill hot pixels when I did a Median combine in AstroArt3.
Camera: MX716
Scope: ZS66SD @ 3.7 (6.3FR)
Guide/mount:SXV Guider on LX90
Schuler Ha filter
Acquired, aligned and median combined in AA3
Histograms, curves and SGBNR noised reduction on the background (not enough probably) in PixInsight LE
Any suggestions are certainly appreciated (Should I raise the black point a bit? There is a hair's width of room.)
Thanks for looking,
Larry
I'll join the "work in progress parade" and post this North America. My intent was to go two to three hours but guider problems (and sleep!) cut me back to about an hour. It's a combination of five minute (guided) and two minute (unguided) images. I hope to add more Ha and perhaps some color soon (and try and come somewhere near Tyler's recent amazing image of the area!). I tried dithering on the guided images which really did seem to help kill hot pixels when I did a Median combine in AstroArt3.
Camera: MX716
Scope: ZS66SD @ 3.7 (6.3FR)
Guide/mount:SXV Guider on LX90
Schuler Ha filter
Acquired, aligned and median combined in AA3
Histograms, curves and SGBNR noised reduction on the background (not enough probably) in PixInsight LE
Any suggestions are certainly appreciated (Should I raise the black point a bit? There is a hair's width of room.)
Thanks for looking,
Larry
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