Imaged at Perth Observatory using the Public Viewing Meade LX200 16" Low in East and some light wind turbulence. Not as good an outcome as with C14 a few nights earlier. Captured with BackyardEOS in 5X Planetary Mode 1800 frames ISO 1600 1/5 Sec Registax 6 Stacked best ~500 Images with wavelet processing Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC Telescope - Meade 16" f/10 FL=4060mm LX200 Schmidt Cassegrain at prime focus, X 2" PowerMate EFL-8120mm f/20, No filter, Baader BCF modified Canon 70D DSLR field 10' x 7' , Ambient ~15C. LX200 Fork mount in Altazimuth mode with sidereal rate tracking and no guiding. Backyard EOS Pro 3.0.3 for Image acquisition.
Image captured at Perth Observatory with Perth Observatory gear. See also re-processed version. Captured with The Imaging Source Image Capture (IC) 1000 frames 1/30 Sec, gain 600 Video cropped with Video Castrator Registax 6 Stacked best 200 Images Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC Telescope - Celestron 'Orange Tube' 14" f/11 FL=3910mm SCT c1978 (Perth Observatory's), 2X Vixen VX Barlow (f/22, FL=7820mm), No filter, The Imaging Source DBK41AU02.AS Colour Planetary Camera, Ambient ~16C. The Imaging Source IC for Image acquisition. Unguided on Sidereal tracked Celestron Wedge.
Image captured at Perth Observatory with Perth Observatory gear. I decided to reprocess this image as I was a bit impatient with the first version. I'm happier with the colour balance and noise level of this version. Captured with The Imaging Source Image Capture (IC) 1000 frames 1/30 Sec, gain 600 Video cropped with Video Castrator Registax 6 Stacked best 200 Images Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC Telescope - Celestron 'Orange Tube' 14" f/11 FL=3910mm SCT c1978 (Perth Observatory's), 2X Vixen VX Barlow (f/22, FL=7820mm), No filter, The Imaging Source DBK41AU02.AS Colour Planetary Camera, Ambient ~16C. The Imaging Source IC for Image acquisition. Unguided on Sidereal tracked Celestron Wedge.
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