I'm always amazed at how well SharpCap can perform when live stacking and filtering Last night I wanted to try and capture the new supernova in M101 but after setting up and framing/focus the clouds rolled in as usual for UK based astronomy!
Having nothing to lose I left the rig turned on and allowing SharpCap to select and Live Stack frames based on brightness. After 2.5 hours I came to shut things down but to my delight found that the spiral arms and SN could easily be resolved. Not a great image by normal standards but on a night with just a few cloud gaps this software really gives you a chance to pull out a result
WO Megrez 72 piggyback on LX-200 classic mount
ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro
8 sec exposures, Gain 120. 60 minutes of frames stacked out of 2.5 hours
M101 with SN2023ixf marked. I estimate its magnituse as +12 from comparison with other nearly stars
SN region crop
Comparison image of the same region I took in 2020
Thanks Robin for all your hard work!
Mike
SN2023ixf in M101
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Re: SN2023ixf in M101
Nice capture of it.
It's cool to have this in a well known object too
Menno
It's cool to have this in a well known object too
Menno
Re: SN2023ixf in M101
Really exciting to see that. well done, I use SC the same way. Even on the worst nights you can leave it running using the filters in livestack and still capture things.
Tim
Tim
Re: SN2023ixf in M101
This might save people a few minutes work...
If you want to annotate your M101 images with the SN as a custom object then copy this string and paste it using the button in the Deep Sky Annotation tool
SN2023ixf|||14:03:38.564| +54:18:42.02||||
Mike.
If you want to annotate your M101 images with the SN as a custom object then copy this string and paste it using the button in the Deep Sky Annotation tool
SN2023ixf|||14:03:38.564| +54:18:42.02||||
Mike.