Eagle Nebula
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Image:
• Target: M16 | Emission Nebula in Serpens
• Apparent Magnitude: +6
• Light frames: 14 x 300” @ ISO1600 (70 Minutes)
• Dark frames: 16 x 300” @ ISO1600
• Flat frames: 20 x Av Mode @ ISO 1600
• Bias frames: 20 x 1/8000” @ ISO1600
• Guided with Orion SSAG using PHD2
Environmental:
• Location: 35 km west of Chikmagalur, Karnataka
• Sky Conditions: Good but 10% Moon was present in the same direction as object
Main Equipment:
• Telescope: Sky-Watcher 8″ f/5 Newtonian Reflector
• Mount: Sky-Watcher NEQ6
• Camera: Canon 5D Mark II [ Unmodified ]
• Filter: Not Used
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
• Histogram Transformation
• Saturation Curves
• ACDNR
• Final Crop and layering of Exposures in PS
Problems Faced:
1. Not Enough Data
