Still a work in progress, mastering the QHY268M with the Optolong LRGBSHO filter set. Seems like a setup with reserved filters is required for the Esprit 100 ED with the original flattener, in order to avoid strange reflections from bright stars such as Deneb or Sadr. Shooting a familiar target here.
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Continuing the explorations with the QHY268M, a two panel H-alpha mosaic. And the first time I used NINA to control the imaging session.
Backyard astrophotography in light-polluted Cologne-Dellbrück (SQM 19.7)
Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 ED, Skywatcher Flattener, Optolong Ha 7nm / QHY268M
OAG with Lodestar X2
Mount AZ EQ6 GT
Image acquisition: CdC, NINA, PHD2, dithering
Ha: 2 x 6 x 600s, mode 1, gain 56, offset 10, -5C, 10 flats, 50 bias, 20 darks
Data calibration/integration: PixInsight
Image processing: PixInsight, Lightroom, two panel mosaic
First steps into the realm of mono astrocams with the QHY268M. Pretty amazed what 3 x 10 min were able to pull out of my suburban skies.
In memoriam Dr. Carsten Jacobs, ad astra!
Backyard astrophotography in light-polluted Cologne-Dellbrück (SQM 19.7)
Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 ED, Skywatcher Flattener, Optolong Ha 7nm, QHY268M
OAG with Lodestar X2
Mount AZ EQ6 GT
Image acquisition: CdC, APT, PHD2, dithering
Ha: 3 x 600s, mode 1, gain 56, offset 40, -10C, 20 flats, 40 bias, 12 darks
Data calibration/integration: PixInsight
Image processing: PixInsight, Lightroom
The last one for this season, weather wasn’t that stellar for astrophotography in the last months, so too little exposure time and too much noise. To be continued in 2022 …
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Again, two months to gather enough photons for this image. The bulk of the exposures were taken during a spell of five clear, cold nights in Feb 2021, though. The emission nebula IC 410 also includes the open cluster NGC 1893.
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A new approach to the Pacman Nebula with the L-eNhance filter and bicolor processing. No so much for clear skies in the winter season here, took over two months to gather some meagre 10 hours of exposure time.
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Zumindest ein paar Daten aus Namibia. ;-) Danke an Michael Mushardt für die Möglichkeit seine Aufnahmen aus dem Oktober 2020 zu bearbeiten.
At least some data from Namibia. ;-) Thanks to Michael Mushardt for making his data from October 2020 available for processing.
Internationale Amateursternwarte e.V.
IAS Observatory Hakos, Namibia
Celestron C14 14″ 3910mm f/11 on Kraska horseshoe mount
ASI178MC with Televue Powermate 2,5x
10% out of 3804 frames
Image acquisition by Michael Mushardt: FireCapture
Image processing by Martin Junius: AutoStakkert! 3, PixInsight, Lightroom
Took two months to gather enough photons for this one, clear skies were quite rare.
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Schon vor einigen Monaten fertiggestellt, aber hier noch gar nicht erwähnt: das Fotobuch zu den Namibiareisen 2018 und 2019, mit Eindrücken vom Fish River Canyon, dem Köcherbaumwald, aus Windhuk, vom Gamsberg und natürlich von Hakos. Und eine reichliche Serie Astrofotografie, insbesondere der Aufenthalt 2019 mit der “Schönwetterkatastrophe” (auch für eh schon sehr gute Namibianische Verhältnisse) war da sehr produktiv.
A spell of quite some clear nights around the September new moon provided ample opportunity to catch enough photons for a well-known target.
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