Imaging telescope or lens:Stellarvue SV80ED
Mount:CGEM
Guiding camera:Canon EOS 60Da
Software:PixInsight, Software Bisque TheSkyX Serious Astronomer, O'Telescope BackyardEOS
Resolution: 5166x3411
Dates: Sept. 18, 2012
Frames: 32x10"
Integration: 0.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.65 days
Avg. Moon phase: 7.73%
Astrometry.net job: 132336
RA center: 305.552 degrees
DEC center: 40.265 degrees
Pixel scale: 1.574 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -83.182 degrees
Field radius: 1.353 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Quincy, Illinois, United States
This is a second attempt to process the first upload of my Sadr region image. My conclusion is that, given the data I was able to collect at my light polluted site, carrying processing further only degrades the image.
Here are the PixInsight tools I applied to this image: AutomaticBackgroundExtraction, BackgroundNeutralization, SCNR (remove green cast), HistogramTransformation, CurvesTransformation, MultiscaleMedianTransform (noise reduction first 3 layers).
Conclusion: It took a light touch with most of these tools to avoid making a marginal image worse. As a result, the background nebulosity (red) is barely discernable.
Critiques are always welcome.
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