First night attempting wide field DSLR imaging piggybacked on guided EQ6 mount. Noticeable vignetting without flats and the lack of a light pollution filter shows strong background light. Also standard 18-55mm lens shows significant non-flatness at the edge of field. This cropped version tries to minimise, but does not remove these faults. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 24 Images ISO 800 40 Sec, 39 DARK @120sec at 9C, 75 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Canon 40D DSLR with 18-55mm in manual focus, Ambient 11C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider flashed as QHY5 and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
First night attempting wide field DSLR imaging piggybacked on guided EQ6 mount. Noticeable vignetting without flats and the lack of a light pollution filter shows strong background light. Also standard 18-55mm lens shows significant non-flatness at the edge of field. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 24 Images ISO 800 40 Sec, 39 DARK @120sec at 9C, 75 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Canon 40D DSLR with 18-55mm in manual focus, Ambient 11C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount control. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider flashed as QHY5 and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
Post processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5
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