Imaging telescopes or lenses: Stellarvue 80mm Triplet APO SV080ST-25FT
Imaging cameras: QHY8L OSC
Mounts: Orion Sirius EQ-G w/ Rowan Belt Mod
Guiding telescopes or lenses: 30mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: QHY5L-II-M
Software: PixInsight 1.8 · DeepSkyStacker · PHD Guiding 2 · Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Filters: Hutech IDAS LPS D1 2"
Dates:Dec. 30, 2015 , Jan. 2, 2016 , Jan. 13, 2016 , Jan. 23, 2016
Frames:Hutech IDAS LPS D1 2": 67x1200"
Integration: 22.3 hours
Flats: ~100
Avg. Moon age: 14.98 days
Avg. Moon phase: 59.05%
Astrometry.net job: 939651
RA center: 5h 41' 4"
DEC center: -2° 26' 2"
Pixel scale: 3.313 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 95.229 degrees
Field radius: 1.617 degrees
Resolution: 2892x1996
Locations: My Backyard, Benton, AR, United States
Data source: Backyard
Well, I begrudgingly paid for a membership. Bugs me a little to have to pay to upload, because we're not getting any new features (yet) but we're having to pay now. I do enjoy having all my images cataloged this way with all the stats, so I opened up my wallet, and here we are.
This object was a real challenge. I've been working on this image all month. Took me the entire month of January.
I started using a new guide scope bracket, and I ended up getting flexure that was causing me to have elongated stars. I never zoomed in close enough to notice that they were bad, so I ended up capturing 35 hours of data that I couldn't use. You just can't imagine how devastated I was to lose all those subs.
So after I realized my mistake and switched back to the metal bracket, I started getting good stars again. So ever since, I've been re-shooting everything I had lost.
This is also the debut image of my new field flattener. Its an FF6 from Stellarvue and the results are amazing! I can now use 100% of the starfield when I do full-image HFR readings on my images in SGP. So my focus should be more accurate now that I can get focus on stars that are not elongated. And of course now I can think about getting into mosaics.
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