LDN 1235 - The Shark Nebula
Hello,
This was my first serious project since i started astrophotography a few years ago. I've come upon this nebula on the internet and found it really insteresting and decided it would be my next target. Acquisicion took around 1 year and with a lot of hickups along the way. Managed to process around 34 hours of data, and this is the result.
Equipment:
Redcat 51;
Toutptek ATR2600c;
HEQ5- Pro belt modded;
Orion 50mm guide scope;
asi 120mm mini
Melee Quieter 3Q mini PC
Software:
NINA;
PHD2;
Sharpcap;
Pixinsight;
Photoshop
Acquisition:
Around 430 (300s) light frames, gain 100, offset 50, -10ºC, dithered.
Pre-Processing:
Blink and subframeselector and wbpp.
Processing:
GraXpert, Astrometry solution, SPCC, blurXterminator, starXterminator;
starless: noiseXterminator, GHS, masks and curves teaks.
stars: GHS.
Recombine, some more curves.
Photoshop:
Watermark, resample.
I really liked the final result, looks great on a A3+ Canon Platinum paper.
More stuff on Astrobin or Instagram.
Clear skies, all!