New blog post!

I am back at astrophotography, and this time I can do it from my house, no need to freeze myself in the field. And so I was able to do the longest acquisition time ever for me, almost seven hours.

Spring is here so the target of choice was galaxies, but I only have a relatively wide angle lens, so I went with the Virgo Galaxy Cluster.

Editing was done in Pixinsight and GIMP, and I am wondering, how many people use Pixinsight here? What are your typical processing pipelines? Maybe we could exchange notes, I am a noob at Pix and would love to see how you edit your photos.

Anyway, I am attaching a teaser trailer here, full pic in the blog post:

https://stfn.pl/blog/96-markarians-chain/

#astrophotography #pixinsight #gimp #photography #blog

Today I've been integrating 270 exposures, 90s seconds each, for a total of 6h 45m, with darks, biases and flats.

First time, an hour in, there was a temporary power loss and I had to start from the beginning.

Second time, hour and a half in, Pixinsight process was killed because it used up the whole RAM and swap, and I had to start from the beginning.

I raised swap from 512MB to 64GB, and finally, the third time worked, it took more than two hours for WBPP to finish.

#astrophotography #pixinsight

Woaaah - Pixinsight just released an astro-image on their site containing the trail of the Artemis mission visible in a deep sky image. How cool is that?!

https://pixinsight.com/gallery/artemis-ii/index.html

Captured from Spain / Astrocamp.

#artemis #astrodon #pixinsight

Andromeda

Imaging by @alex NYC-Bortle 9 / 878 x 300s subs / Poseidon-C Pro / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) /AM5 /ZWO asi120mm mini / UVI IR-CUT filter

Processed by me in #Pixinsight and Photoshop

#astrodon #astrophotography #galaxy

PixInsight just added an awesome new step for rejecting frames during the stacking process! This has been something I wanted for a long time, so I'm excited to see it. My current intake process will filter out obvious things like clouds, but Frame Selection exposed a potential issue with my frames shot during the full moon. Sweet!

https://blog.briangweber.com/wbpp-frame-selection/

#astrophotography #pixinsight #newfeatures #stacking #processing

Here's our latest image of the Pleiades. We didn't capture as much data as I would have liked, but we spent most of the fall photographing the Andromeda Galaxy.

Imaging by @alex NYC-Bortle 9 / 222 x 300s subs / Poseidon-C Pro / Z61 (f5.9, 360 mm) /AM5 /ZWO asi120mm mini / UVI IR-CUT filter

Processed by me in #Pixinsight

#astrodon #astrophotography