NGC1499 (California Nebula Mosaic)
My first mosaic, using special tools in Sequence Generator Pro and PixInsight
Equipment:
Refractor, 132 mm aperture, 928 mm focal length
TMB Flattener 68
QSI683wsg, 8-position filter wheel, Astrodon filters
Paramount MX
SX Lodestar guide camera (off-axis guider)
Software: (Windows 10)
Sequence Generator Pro, ASCOM drivers
TheSkyX pro
PHD2 autoguider software
PixInsight (Mac OSX)
Exposure (for each tile): (LRGBHα)
LPS P2 bin 1; 15 × 300 seconds, Hα bin1; 5 × 1,200 seconds
G&B bin 2; 10 × 300 seconds, R bin2; 15 × 300 seconds
It is one thing to take and process a simple mosaic, comprising of a few images, and quite another when the tile count grows and each is taken through 5 separate filters. Not ...
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