My first photo of a deep sky object the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula – IC 1396 taken on 2021-09-24 in a bortle 5 zone.
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Equipment
Scope
- TS-Optics 61EDPH II A: 61mm FL: 274mm
Mount
- Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro
Camera
- ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
I just used the tracking of the mount without guiding with the guide scope as there are still a few issues with my setup.
Acquisition
- Ha 30x120s
- Sii 30x120s
- Oiii 30x120s
- Dark 60x120s
Postprocessing
- Stacked in Deepskystacker
- Stretch and channel integration in PixInsight
- Starmask with Starnet++
- Smaller Stars and Color Adjustments in Photoshop
Here you can see the stacked and stretched H-Alpha image compared to the integrated and processed color image.
