DumbellNebula_V1

Dumbell Nebula
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Image:

• Target: M27 | Nebula in Vulpecula
• Apparent Magnitude: +7.5
• Light frames: 10 x 300” @ ISO1600 ( 50 Minutes)
• Dark frames: 14 x 120” @ ISO1600
• Flat frames: 20 x Av Mode @ ISO 1600
• Bias frames: 20 x 1/8000” @ ISO1600
• Guided with Orion SSAG using PHD2

Environmental:

• Location: Yelagiri,Tamil Nadu
• Sky Conditions: Good but a bit Hazy

Main Equipment:

• Telescope: Sky-Watcher 8″ f/5 Newtonian Reflector
• Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6
• Camera: CentralDS Cooled 5D Mark II Full Spectrum Modified
• Filter: IDAS LPS 2″

Accessories:

• Coma corrector: Sky-Watcher 0.9x Coma Corrector
• Power-Supply: 150AH Inverter Battery with Inverter

Integration and Processing:

• Processed in PixInsight 1.8
• Batch Preprocessing Script with Cosmetic Correction
• Dynamic Crop
• DBE
• Background Neutralisation
• Colour Calibration
• MultiscaleLinearTransform
• Histogram Transformation
• ACDNR
• Saturation Curves
• LHE
• SCNR
• Final Crop and layering of Exposures in PS

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