2 hours exposure time (10 second sub frames)

Astrophotography Equipment

  • Scope: Celestron C8 With Hyperstar v4
  • Main Camera: ZWO ASI585MC
  • Filter: Optolong UV-IR Cut Filter 2”
  • Mount: ZWO AM5
  • Guide Scope: SVBONY SV165
  • Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM
  • Other Equipment: ASI Air plus, Celestron C8 lens dew heater, one Dewnot Dew Heater Jackery Explorer 300 power bank

Pixinsight Processing

  • Dynamic Crop
  • Image Solver
  • Graxpert Background Extraction
  • Spectrophotometric Color Calibration
  • BlurXterminator
  • Graxpert Noise Reduction
  • Statistical Stretch
  • SNCR
  • Starnet Star Removal
  • Curves Transformation
    • Applied slight s curve
  • Curves Transformation
    • Increase color saturation on starless image
    • Increase color saturation on starmask
  • Pixel math to add stars back
  • Star reduction
  • One more round of graxpert denoising

by E_Dward

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