
I've wanted to shoot this target for a long time. I just got the Svbony SV535 and finally had a scope capable to do so without creating a huge mosaic, so I had to shoot this. I only managed 2 hours with the very late rise above the horizon and the moon was about 80% full, so less than ideal conditions. Hope to get more next new moon and plan a mosaic.
Acquisition details:
40 x 180s exposures
- Camera: ASI 2600mc
- Scope: sv535
- Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5
- Guide scope: Skywatcher 8×50 finder scope
- Focuser: Gemini EAF
- Software: Nina
Processing in Pixinsight
- Dynamic crop
- Graxpert background extraction
- Plate solve
- SPCC
- BlurXterminator
- MAS stretch
- Starnet remove stars
- Curves adjustments
- Noise terminator
- Recombine starless and star image
by NqNewlin

1 Comment
Rho Ophiuchi is a favorite of mine. Thanks for snapping it!