dslr astrophotography
NGC4565 Galaxy
Acquisition:
Date: 06/06/2008
Location: Golden Grove , Western Australia
Optics: Skywatcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian
Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (low-pass filter removed)
Filter/other: Astronomik UV-IR Block L, MPCC
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan
Focus: DSLRFocus
Guiding: PHDGuide, Orion Autoguider, 70mm f/12 refractor
Exposure: 6 x 180sec ISO800 (18 mins combined)
David Ahn 2008
Processing:
DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking
Photoshop CS2: levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, crop, jpeg conversion
Noiseware: Noise reduction
 
 
 
 
Comments:
Only managed to capture 6 useable frames at 10 degrees above the horizon.
NGC4565
Constellation Berenices
45 Mly
Magnitude 10.4