Eventually I had to sent my STL-11000M camera to Baader Planetarium (Germany) for repairs. There might be a problem with TE cooler or power source. It’s gonna take at least a month to get my camera back. If weather allows, I’m going to pursue few CVs with nice light curves with my ST-7XME camera.
I’m going through my old images and reprocessing them with new tricks I’ve learned after watching Adam Block’s DVD. Here is M42 from last year.
Watching few hours of Adam Block’s PS tutorials, I tried those new tricks on my old M33 data. Here are both LHaRGB and LRGB versions with new processing.
Astrodon’s MonsterMOAG arrived in good shape. This OAG is huge! The package was compact but full of stuff, including a set of Allen wrenches. I’m still waiting for SBIG remote guide head to complete my OAG equipment. After that I can move guide scope out of the equation.
This project is almost finished. Now total exposure time is 7.2 hours. I added some more luminance and red data. Also I put some more effort to image processing. Hope it paid off!
Additional 70 minutes of Ha data added and color balance finetuned.
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Additional data to this project. Now total exposure time is 320 minutes.
While continuing my Pacman Nebula project, I was able to start this project as well. These two objects are going to be my main imaging targets for this autumn. This is 70 minutes of luminance channel. Click image for full resolution 4008 x 2672 image (5MB).
Finally I could start new photography season with this great emission nebula in constellation Cassiopeia. This is a perfect target from my location at this time of the year. Whe it gets dark, NGC281 have rised above 50 degrees from horizon and it’s hour angle is more than 4 hours at that time.
This image is 60 minutes Ha-exposure and there is a lot more to come.
I started preparations for new photography season by cleaning and dusting my observatory and equipment. Next thing to do is testing software and remote operations.
