IC10 Starburst Galaxy LRGB, Ha. Taken from PixelSkies, Spain
www.pixelskiesastro.comThe first time using Voyager and its DragScript feature for Image Acquisition I've got to say I'm very impressed with it. After a few tweaks to the DragScript, I finally got it working.
This will be my Image Acquisition software from now on as it offers a bit more automation then Sequence Generator Pro.
IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. The radial velocity of IC 10 was measured in 1962, and it was found to be approaching the Milky Way at approximately 350 km/s, strengthening the evidence for its membership in the Local Group. Its membership in the group was finally confirmed in 1996 by direct measurements of its distance based on observations of Cepheids. Despite its closeness, the galaxy is rather difficult to study because it lies near the plane of the Milky Way and is therefore heavily obscured by interstellar matter.
The apparent distance between IC 10 and the Andromeda Galaxy is about the same as the apparent distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, which suggests that IC 10 may belong to the M31 subgroup.
Lum 44x600Secs
Red 33x300Secs
Green 45x300Secs
Blue 32x300Secs
Ha 16x1200Secs
20 hours 50 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Tec 140 F7
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 0.95
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik LRGB, Ha
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC
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