This is my first sucessful image since purchasing a SXV-H9 early this month. It had been cloudy most nights since until last Monday night/Tuesday morning.
Taken around 4am Tuesday (April 27) morning, from my back yard in the heavily light polluted skies of Deer Park, Texas (next to Houston).
The scope is a Takahashi FS-78 (630mm @ F8) mounted on an LX200 fork mount in tandom with a Celestron 9.25 SCT (used to autoguide @ F3.3). I am still working on the best guiding settings/techniques.
This image is a composite of the best 36 (of 65) one minute images taken through a plain Celestron red filter. The images were aligned and medium combined, followed with a .5, then a .8 gamma stretch in MaximDL/CCD V3.22. I then adjusted contrast in Photoshop LE and reduce the size to 50% (I may post again cropped around the Eagle instead of reduced).
Between camera control, guiding techniques, and image processing it is quite a learning curve, but it's fun.
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks
Steven Jindra
Taken around 4am Tuesday (April 27) morning, from my back yard in the heavily light polluted skies of Deer Park, Texas (next to Houston).
The scope is a Takahashi FS-78 (630mm @ F8) mounted on an LX200 fork mount in tandom with a Celestron 9.25 SCT (used to autoguide @ F3.3). I am still working on the best guiding settings/techniques.
This image is a composite of the best 36 (of 65) one minute images taken through a plain Celestron red filter. The images were aligned and medium combined, followed with a .5, then a .8 gamma stretch in MaximDL/CCD V3.22. I then adjusted contrast in Photoshop LE and reduce the size to 50% (I may post again cropped around the Eagle instead of reduced).
Between camera control, guiding techniques, and image processing it is quite a learning curve, but it's fun.
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks
Steven Jindra
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