Just a very quick shot of Venus. From setup to disassembly took 40 min. Just shows you how much easier and less time consuming planetary imaging is. ED80, AVX, QHY5L-II-M and 3x Televue Barlow After stacking in Registax and applying wavelet processing, a fellow redditor used PixInsight to sharpen the image by doing a deconvolution […]
Monthly Archives: February 2017
D3200 vs h-alpha modded D5300
If anyone ever wanted to see how much of a difference a modded DSLR makes, these comparisons do a great job demonstrating that. Both images were done in the same location, using same gear and exposure length. The first example is the Veil nebula. It has equally strong Ha and Oiii signal. Ha comes out […]
Imaging the Horsehead Nebula
Another cold winter session and I’m trying out my new LifePixel modified Nikon D5300. The h-alpha response is incredible. I can finally see strong dark red signal registering. This is a great improvement over my D3200 camera. In addition, I have stopped using dark frames. It is too time consuming and a pain to accurately […]
Purchased PixInsight
Processing in Photoshop is very tedious, since the main problem is easily stretching the images to bring out faint details. With PS it requires many tiny increases using the curves and levels. With PixInsight – its a click of a button. I can now also easily remove light pollution and do proper deconvolution and noise […]
Fastest and cheapest polar alignment method
Instead of spending on a polemaster, Im gonna try attaching the QHY5LII-M to the back of the orion 8×40 finderscope and use the SharpCap polar aligning feature. My ST80 has too narrow field of view as Sharpcap needs between 1 and 4 deg FOV. To attach the camera, I unscrewed the eyepiece part of the […]