M27 from Bortle 4 site
Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 8:12 pm
Captured at a beach on the Isle of Anglesey, off the North Wales coast. This is a Bortle 4 site as opposed to my home which is Bortle 6.
High res image here https://www.astrobin.com/full/0ffje8/0/
Equipment: Celestron AVX mount, Altair 66ED refractor, Altair 0.8x reducer/flattener, Altair 183C V2.
Capture: 60x60s, 20 darks, 100 bias, 100 flats.
Software: SharpCap 3.2, FITS Liberator (to inspect test frame), Siril (calibration, registration, stacking, crop, colour calibration, green noise removal), Gimp (Curves, Saturation, Contrast).
Capture settings were RAW12, gain 200, black level 30 (black level established by using lowest value which gives centralised histogram for bias frame at gain 200) .
The image from the Bortle 4 site has a much richer star colour and number of stars compared with my Bortle 6 site image here
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1724. During the registration of frames, Siril was finding in excess of 2,000 stars in the frames.
The final stack was cropped and re-processed, to show more detail of the nebula:
Dave
[ALTAIRH183C]
Debayer Preview=On
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Capture Area=5440x3648
Binning=1x1
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Colour Space=RAW12
Fan=On
Temperature=14.3
Black Level=30
USB Speed=1
Auto Exp Target=120
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Analogue Gain=200
Exposure=60000
Timestamp Frames=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=None
Subtract Dark=None
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0.005859375
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0.015859375
#White Point
Display White Point=0.78515625
TimeStamp=2019-08-28T22:45:31.8468576Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.6086.0
High res image here https://www.astrobin.com/full/0ffje8/0/
Equipment: Celestron AVX mount, Altair 66ED refractor, Altair 0.8x reducer/flattener, Altair 183C V2.
Capture: 60x60s, 20 darks, 100 bias, 100 flats.
Software: SharpCap 3.2, FITS Liberator (to inspect test frame), Siril (calibration, registration, stacking, crop, colour calibration, green noise removal), Gimp (Curves, Saturation, Contrast).
Capture settings were RAW12, gain 200, black level 30 (black level established by using lowest value which gives centralised histogram for bias frame at gain 200) .
The image from the Bortle 4 site has a much richer star colour and number of stars compared with my Bortle 6 site image here
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1724. During the registration of frames, Siril was finding in excess of 2,000 stars in the frames.
The final stack was cropped and re-processed, to show more detail of the nebula:
Dave
[ALTAIRH183C]
Debayer Preview=On
Output Format=FITS files (*.fits)
Capture Area=5440x3648
Binning=1x1
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Colour Space=RAW12
Fan=On
Temperature=14.3
Black Level=30
USB Speed=1
Auto Exp Target=120
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Analogue Gain=200
Exposure=60000
Timestamp Frames=Off
Banding Threshold=35
Banding Suppression=0
Apply Flat=None
Subtract Dark=None
#Black Point
Display Black Point=0.005859375
#MidTone Point
Display MidTone Point=0.015859375
#White Point
Display White Point=0.78515625
TimeStamp=2019-08-28T22:45:31.8468576Z
SharpCapVersion=3.2.6086.0