I need to get more integration time, but already really happy.
Equipment and process?
Hi, thank you for the interest!
Equipment:
- Canon 90d (no astro mod) ISO800
- Canon 200mm f2.8L lens stopped down to f4.0
- Star adventurer 2i mount
As many 20s exposures as I could get that night.
I use Siril for processing, been enjoying manual preprocessing recently actually. I stack and then follow a general processing pipeline I like: BG extraction, Photometric colour cal, then starnet++ star removal.
I denoise in graxpert and back to Siril for stretching the data using GHS
You make me hopeful of one day being able to do this myself. I basically have all of this equipment! The hardest part is lugging equipment to a good location and not freezing to death.
That’s awesome! I had the same epiphany before I even bought a mount. Use a 50mm lens and 1-2s images and you can still stack!
I’m sure you’ve seen him before, but Nebula Photos is an amazing channel for no nonsense videos about “I have a camera, what do”
I think I have the workflow down, but I don’t have a car so I can’t easily get equipment around. There’s a lot of weather issues where I live, also. It’s just a lot of things that have to line up…
Ahh that sucks
I feel incredibly lucky that I have a Bortle 5 in my garden, it would be so much harder if I needed to drive somewhere
