[AZ-Observing] Re: Double Cluster

  • From: Howard Moneta <hmoneta@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:40:42 -0700

That turned out really beautiful. Nice to know they are up there even
in light polluted
Phoenix. That's more stars and I see through a telescope in a dark sky!
On Friday, November 14, 2014, Albert Barr <ajbarr@xxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a wide field of the Double Cluster I did from light polluted
> Phoenix a few nights ago. I wanted to test doing all 60 second exposures
> with guiding and dithering. I did about 60 luminance and 60 RGB exposures.
> They were calibrated in Maxim but stacked and processed in PixInsight. I
> used drizzle initially which doubled the file size and deconvolution took a
> few hours to complete. The gradient due to light pollution really wasn’t
> too bad and the drizzle technique really helped increase the resolution and
> make for nice round stars. This definitely looks better on a computer
> screen but I think I can image relatively bright objects from home despite
> bad light pollution by using shorter exposures.
> Albert
>
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> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49526053@N04/15788429221/in/photostream/lightbox/
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