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Heart and Soul on the cheap(ish), Jim Medley
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Heart and Soul on the cheap(ish)

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Heart and Soul on the cheap(ish), Jim Medley
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Heart and Soul on the cheap(ish)

Revision title: PixInsight

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I'm challenging myself to find a lightweight and portable kit for widefield DSO photography.  I have settled on modified Canon DSLRs and Skyguider Pro tracking mount with an ASIAir.  My concern was about finding and framing the target with a completely manual setup.  However, the plate solving routine in ASIAir has made that fairly straight forward, if a little tedious.  The Heart and Soul are difficult to fit in a single frame, but the Canon 200mm f/2.8 lens with an APS-C sensor is ideal.  Last night had a lot of moonlight, but using the Optolong L-enhance EOS clip filter really improved my chances.  This is four hours of 60 second frames unguided.

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Description: Using SPCC, BlurXterminator and NoiseXterminator in PI with the usual Lightroom curve tweaks.

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Heart and Soul on the cheap(ish), Jim Medley