dslr astrophotography
IC447
IC 447
Acquisition:
Date: 21/11/2009
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, MPCC
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan
Focus: Bahtinov mask
Guiding: PHDGuide, Orion Starshoot guider, 70mm f/12 refractor
Exposure: 60 x 240sec ISO800 (4hrs combined)
David Ahn 2009
Processing:
DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking
Photoshop CS4: Levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion. LRGB used blue channel for luminance.
NoiseNinja: Noise reduction
 
 
 
 
Comments:
Dim target but stayed with 4 min subs.

 

IC 447 + IC 446
Constellation Monoceros
~ ly
Magnitude ~