M42, ASI120MC, Autostakkert!3
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 1:22 am
A recent capture of M42 with an ASI120MC. Camera settings file below.
Celestron C8, CG5 mount, TS f6.3 reducer, ASI120MC, no filters
1280 x 960, 100 x15s, gain=20, brightness=10, 50 darks, no flats, output to FITS
Autostakkert!3 (see screen below) was used to:
This is a test capture loaded in FITS Liberator to ensure a reasonable histogram and tonal range
before capturing the 100 frames.
Autostakkert took around 15s to process the data files on a quad core Xeon 3.4GHz with 16Gb memory and a dedicated RAID0 striped array comprising 2 x 240Gb SSD drives.
Dave
Celestron C8, CG5 mount, TS f6.3 reducer, ASI120MC, no filters
1280 x 960, 100 x15s, gain=20, brightness=10, 50 darks, no flats, output to FITS
Autostakkert!3 (see screen below) was used to:
- create a master dark
- calibrate the lights
- debayer
- stack
- M42-100x15s-g20-br10.png (119.7 KiB) Viewed 1266 times
This is a test capture loaded in FITS Liberator to ensure a reasonable histogram and tonal range
before capturing the 100 frames.
- M42-100x15s-histogram.PNG (51.03 KiB) Viewed 1266 times
Autostakkert took around 15s to process the data files on a quad core Xeon 3.4GHz with 16Gb memory and a dedicated RAID0 striped array comprising 2 x 240Gb SSD drives.
- AS!3-process.PNG (46.45 KiB) Viewed 1266 times
Dave