Carina and the Minstrel, The_Algebrist

Carina and the Minstrel

Carina and the Minstrel, The_Algebrist

Carina and the Minstrel

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

This is my first light with a new scope I managed to pick up second hand. I wanted to highlight the interplay of the light and dark nebulosity in this region
Capture date: 5-3-2022 and 6-3-2022 from near Port Waikato, NZ (Bortle Class 2)
Lights: 192 @ 120s (7.6 hours integration time)
Darks: 25 per night
Flats: 50 @ 1/30s using tablet as flat panel
Flat Darks: 50 @ 1/30s
Scope: Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED
Camera: Sony a6000 (unmodified)
Guide scope: QHY 130mm Mini Guide Scope
Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Tripod: Sky-Watcher EQ6 Tripod
Control: NINA for polar alignment and control of capture
Processed in PixInsight:
Calibrated using WBPP2
Normalised and stacked using Normalise Scale Gradient script
TGVDenoise
MultiscaleMedianTransform
Photometric Colour Calibration
Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch
Starnet2
LocalHistogramEqualization
MultiscaleMedianTransform & unsharp mask for Sharpening
Curves for tone and saturation
Recombine stars with PixelMath
Lightroom for minor colour adjustments

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Carina and the Minstrel, The_Algebrist