ic1396 with
Vixen ED 80 - 2 hours and 4 hours
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a larger file..
North to the right as I
had the camera in a vertical mode. the elephant trunk and surrounds.
A first try at this, found it
to be very dim... the top images is two hours (12x600s) and the
bottom 4 hours (24x600s).. I am still having trouble in my processing
at the bottom end, the final blacks tend to crash with a ragged
edge... Just technique I'm sure, still learning. The longer
exposure sure did bring the Ha up a lot... but my stacking seems
to have blown out the star colors and I lost the small
bright red spot at the end of the trunk.... was there a few passes
ago...lol
acquired, processed with
massive bad pixel removal, flat calibrated, de-mosaic, and stacked
using std. deviation in Nebulosity, no darks.
almost all post processing in Nebulosity: color correction, curves,
scaling, color scaling, levels.
additonal pass of curves and color in PSCS3 with a little NoiseNinja
before jpeg conversion.
Vixen ED80 at f7.5 (no corrector)
riding on my Meade Classic LX200 12 inch, Hap mod 350d,
guided by PHD, DSI Pro on the 12 inch at f5.8 --- sky good, a
bit of haze
enjoy