Imaging telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher Esprit 150ED Super APO Triplet Esprit 150ED Super APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO asi 2600 MC
Mounts: Software Bisque MYT
Software: Topaz Denoise AI · APT - Astro Photography Tool · Software Bisque The Sky X Pro · PixInsight · DeepSkyStacker Deep Sky Stacker (DSS)
Accessory: Moonlite Nitecrawler 2.5
Dates:May 28, 2020
Frames: 200x150"
Integration: 8.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 5.67 days
Avg. Moon phase: 32.16%
Astrometry.net job: 3634888
RA center: 12h 39' 58"
DEC center: -11° 37' 20"
Pixel scale: 0.719 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -0.475 degrees
Field radius: 0.235 degrees
Resolution: 1894x1402
Locations: my balcony, Limassol, Cyprus
Data source: Backyard
This is my first time on this beautiful galaxy. I had 3 nights with good seeing and no clouds, I manage to collect about 10 hours of data. After a frame selection process I decided to use the best 80% of them.
Description: Cropped frame on revision C
Description: Cropped frame
Description: re-framed
Description: slight sharpening and background noise reduction using Starnet++ PI module and DeNoise AI
Description: Colour enhancement
| The refractors! |
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