The final cropped stack after 3 nights of light gathering for this object, but not processed until early 2012 and now reprocessed in late 2012, to be less red dominated, prior to posting this on my AstroBin site. This follows my initial attempt at this object 14/11/2010. Also see uncropped version and the incremental images from the three separate nights. The much delayed processing of this shows the capability to revisit earlier 'gathered light' either because you've learned new skills or because gathering the light is a time dependent exercise, but processing it is much less so. Gather when you can and process at you leisure! DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 80% of 43 Images over 3 nights ISO 800 180 Sec, 32 DARK, 16 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed by Photoshop CS5 Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA T-Adapter, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 400D DSLR, Ambient xxC (not recorded). Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider.
Night 2 of a 3 night sequence to gather more light for this object. This follows my initial attempt 14/11/2010. This was my initial poor processing attempt. Also see re-processed image of early 2012. Also see the final image at the end of the three nights. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 70% of 19 Images ISO 800 180 Sec, 13 DARK, 16 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed by Photoshop CS4 Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA T-Adapter, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 400D DSLR, Ambient xxC (not recorded). Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider.
I revisited this stack of images in early 2012 and reprocessed it with the benefit of a bit more post-processing experience. Night 2 of a 3 night sequence to gather more light for this object. This follows my initial attempt 14/11/2010. This was my initial poor processing attempt. Also see re-processed image of early 2012. Also see the final image at the end of the three nights. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 80% of 19 Images ISO 800 180 Sec, 13 DARK, 16 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed by Photoshop CS4 Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA T-Adapter, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 400D DSLR, Ambient xxC (not recorded). Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider.
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