Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging cameras: Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Mounts: Sky-Watcher EZ-EQ6 GT
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Opticstar AR80S (f5) Gold Guidescope
Guiding cameras: Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software: Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8 RC7 · Maxim DL
Filters: Astrodon 3nm SII · Astrodon 3nm OIII · Ha 5nm
Accessory: Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System · Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser · Starlight-XPress Filter Wheel
Dates:Oct. 15, 2013
Frames: 32x888"
Integration: 7.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 11.17 days
Avg. Moon phase: 86.08%
Astrometry.net job: 83639
Resolution: 3309x2636
Data source: Backyard
This image is a first for me in many ways:
This is my first image taken with a CCD camera (Trius SX-814) before I was using a Canon 500D DSLR.
It's the first time I have used all three Narrowband filters H-a, OIII & SII, before I just used H-a.
It's the first time I have managed to take some 30min subs (was 10min), and also used FocusMax with Pinpoint for focus and plate solving, making returning to the same field of view much easier.
This is also the first image I have processed completely in PixInsight (v1.8 RC7). Before I was just using the pre-processing and DBE and finishing in Lightroom/Photoshop.
H-a 150min (12 exposures 600s and 1200s)
OIII 140min (9 exposures 600s and 1200s)
SII 181min (11 various exposures from 180 to 1800s)
Total integration 7.9hrs over 5 nights from 2013/09/22 to 2013/10/15.
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