M82 Cigar Galaxy magnification
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 4:44 pm
M82 Cigar Galaxy magnification
This really is a mish-mash of captures. I had a lot of good stuff but from when I didn’t do flats and/or darks. So the center was okay but outside not.
So I sorted out all the FITS files, converted SER files to FITS and sorted those out and then I used DeepSkyStacker to see if it could do something with it.
And it did
On the right there is still a bit of dark from not using darks/flats but I am okay with that.
Equipment:
Ioptron CEM25EC mount, unguided
Meade LX65 8” f/10 ACF OTA
Optec Lepus Standard 0.62x reducer
Baader IR/UV Cut filter
Zwo ASI385MC camera
Capture with SharpCap: in total 146 captures, ranging from 30 to 60 seconds.
DeepSkyStacker for stacking
Processing in PS: Crop and a bit enlargement, Curves and Levels, Color saturation, Noise reduction, Unsharp mask.
This really is a mish-mash of captures. I had a lot of good stuff but from when I didn’t do flats and/or darks. So the center was okay but outside not.
So I sorted out all the FITS files, converted SER files to FITS and sorted those out and then I used DeepSkyStacker to see if it could do something with it.
And it did
On the right there is still a bit of dark from not using darks/flats but I am okay with that.Equipment:
Ioptron CEM25EC mount, unguided
Meade LX65 8” f/10 ACF OTA
Optec Lepus Standard 0.62x reducer
Baader IR/UV Cut filter
Zwo ASI385MC camera
Capture with SharpCap: in total 146 captures, ranging from 30 to 60 seconds.
DeepSkyStacker for stacking
Processing in PS: Crop and a bit enlargement, Curves and Levels, Color saturation, Noise reduction, Unsharp mask.