Heart and Soul of an Unmodified Camera (Mike Coates)

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Heart and Soul of an Unmodified Camera

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Heart and Soul of an Unmodified Camera

Nearly full moon? CHECK
Unmodified mirrorless camera? CHECK
First clear skies in 3 weeks? GAAAAAAAME OOOOOOOOOOOOON!

I was utterly desperate to get out last night, and figured I'd go after a difficult target for an unmodified sensor and see what I could get with a full night worth of data. All-in-all, impressed I was able to get much detail at all, considering conditions, but the processing of this really does showcase the importance of "good data in ⇒ good data out." I had to do an absolute TON of noise reduction on this to make it not a garbage pile, heh.

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Description: Learning more about layer masks and ways to improve contrast without blowing the noise up.

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Description: Trimmed out the original data set down to 3h 29m worth of 60 second exposures, and then added another 3h 45m of 60 second exposures on top from last night (11/6).

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h43m30s.30
RA (top/left)	02h24m49s.85
RA (top/right)	03h02m32s.34
RA (bottom/right)	03h04m00s.11
RA (bottom/left)	02h22m39s.29

Dec (center)	+61°07′26″.1
Dec (top/left)	+59°32′26″.9
Dec (top/right)	+59°36′49″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+62°31′36″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+62°27′13″.8

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