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Sh2-64 and surroundings [OC] (live.staticflickr.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Gorgeous, astrophotography is like black magic to me, I’m really grateful there’s people like you out there giving us these kinds of images.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sh2-64 is the red nebula to the right of the image. It frames up pretty well with the more golden stars seen in the milky way core. I probably should've gotten more exposure time to help bring out some of the dark nebula details, but it was only clear for one night at the dark site (at least the night went perfectly, which is rare for trips out to the middle of nowhere). Captured on June 7th, 2024 from a Bortle 3 zone (Deerlick Astronomy Village)

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Instagram

Equipment:

  • TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

  • Orion Sirius EQ-G

  • ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

  • Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

  • ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

  • Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

  • Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

  • Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

  • ZWO ASI-290mc for guiding

  • Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition: 5 hours 44 minutes (Camera at half unity gain -15°C)

  • L - 76x120"

  • R - 32x120"

  • G - 32x120"

  • B - 32x120"

  • Darks- 30

  • Flats- 30 per filter

Capture Software:

  • Captured using N.I.N.A. and PHD2 for guiding and dithering.

PixInsight Preprocessing:

  • BatchPreProcessing

  • StarAlignment

  • Blink

  • ImageIntegration per channel per panel

  • DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)

  • Dynamic Crop

  • DynamicBackgroundExtraction

Luminance Linear:

  • BlurXterminator (Correct only)

  • NoiseXterminator

  • HistogramTransformation + sketchpad's iHDR script (low preset) to stretch to nonlinear

RGB Linear:

  • ChannelCombination to combine monochrom R G and B stacks into color image

  • SpectrophotometricColorCalibration

  • BlurXterminator (correct only)

  • HSV repair

  • ArcsinhStretch + iHDR script (low preset) to stretch to nonlinear

Nonlinear Processing:

  • LRGBCombination using stretched L as luminance

  • DeepSNR

  • Various curve adjustments for lightness, contrast, hue, saturation, etc (with varying lum/star masks)

  • Slight SCNR green

  • ColorSaturation to boost the saturation of the Ha region

  • More curves

  • NoiseXterminator

  • invert > SCNR > invert to remove some magentas

  • LocalHistogramEqualization

two rounds at scale 16 and 132 to target different sized structures

  • LOTS more curve adjustments

  • MultiscaleLinearTransform for chrominance noise reduction

  • Even more curves

  • Resample to 60%

  • Annotation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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