Photos of The Week - September, 2016 - ISS attempt with ASI174MM, terrestrial imaging including IR, Milky Way with Hutech modded Canon 6D and 3 frame, 2 camera mosaic of Heart and Sould Nebulae |
IC 1805 and IC 1848 - The Heart and Soul Nebulae Images from a Hutech modified Canon 6D in the Takahashi FSQ106 EDxiii (4 and 5 minute exposres @ ISO 800 and ISO 1600) were fully calibrated and then registered with a stack of simultaneously imaged Hydrogen Alpha filtered images done using a side-by-side SXVR-H694 Camera with a mounted EOS EF200 zoom @ FL200. For each camera, 3 Mosaic frames were captured with Sequence Generator using the mosaic tool while guiding with PhD2. Averaged approximately 60-80 minutes per frame of stacked images. Mosaic integration and overall Processing was done with Pixinsight and finished in PS4. Presented as Ha-Red/Green/Blue + an Ha-Luminance layer with some saturation enhancement done in PS4. Imaging Setup and Technical Assistance: Kevin McArthur |
Milky Way from St. George's Island - Canon 6D modified - 6 minute (stack of 6x1 minute) |
Infra-red - Kennebunkport, ME - Canon 6D mod. Below: 4th of July at North Star Farm - Canon 6D mod |
ISS Image: image/frame, right is a stack of 10 frames. Both are either overexposed or caught when on the horizon. I will get this damn thing right one day! |
Moon: ASI174MM @ prime (FL2800), Captured with Firecapture. Stack of 300 of best 1500 frames. |
No Frame - 10 mb |
Full Size below - 36 mb - enjoyable for zooming |
'on the fly' low-res screen captures after initial stacking of the Canon data. These screen captures were from DBE-ed, non-linear TIF files stretched but un-processed. They represent within a frame, only 1 to 1 h 15 m of data. Zooming in from left to right, the quality of the Tak optics and sensitivity of the camera can be seen. This is pre-color and noise cleanup and has some initial mosaic combination/registration flaws and corner stretching, but in general I am going to like this combo of cameras and Canon setup for Ha-RGB. |
Ha - H694 camera, EOS EF 200 zoom lens, Ha7 Baader filter. 3 frame mosaic - initial stacking and alignment - low res |