Hello!
After repairing my HEQ5 Pro mount a few days ago, I wanted to test it out. This was captured in Melbourne, Victoria, and the moon was at near full. I’ve never captured a mosaic before and really wanted to try it out. Luckily, the Carina Nebula is one of the brightest and largest DSO’s in Australia’s night sky. This meant I only needed 2.5 hours per panel to get decent results. I didn’t lean to hard on the processing as I wanted the final image to be kind of “flowy” if you know what I mean.
Anyways, I hope you all enjoy this image as much as I have enjoyed capturing it!
Acquisition:
Acquisition Details:
Equipment:
Telescope – Redcat51
Camera – zwo asi533mc pro
mount – swsa 2i
Filters: Optolong L-Extreme
Imaging:
Lights: 141×120" exposures
Flats: 25, Darks: 20
Software: NINA, PHD2
Bortle 5-6 zone (88% moon)
Processing:
in SIRIL
manual preprocess + new mosaic feature -> bkg extraction (RBF) -> PCC -> SCNR -> starnet star removal -> asinh transformation -> stretch starless image -> color saturation -> star recomposition (starmask stretch)
Full Resolution Image: https://app.astrobin.com/i/3f3osp
by Quick-Psychology-503