Equipment:

  • Skywatcher 130-PDS with 0.9x CC
  • NEQ-6 mount with belt mod
  • ZWO ASI294mm pro cooled to 0 C with ZWO 7nm narrowband filters
  • Guided by a Startravel 80 with ZWO ASI120MC-S

Software:

  • Image acquisition with AstroPhotographyTools
  • Guiding with PHD2
  • Stacked with sirilic
  • Processed entirely in Siril

Subs:

  • 31 x 60 s L
  • 10 x 180 s R
  • 10 x 180 s G
  • 12 x 60 s B
  • TOTAL: just 63 mins integration on 26th May 2026 in suburban location (Bortle 5-6 ish) with bright old waxing gibbous moon

Processing:

  • Stacked in sirilic using winsorised sigma clipping
  • 6 library darks
  • flats and dark flats for each filter
  • Siril:
    • LRGB composition
    • Crop and colour balance
    • Denoise and histogram stretching
    • Star removal
    • More stretching and denoising during recombination

by sagramore

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