livid wigeon
Here's my attempt at the eagle nebula with 6hrs from bortle 9. Kind of wanted to get more detail in the pillars but I think this is good enough for now.
Equipment
Scope: Sky-Watcher 150PDS
- Modded with CYCK secondary mirror spider, backyard universe primary mirror mask, and extended studs/screws to move primary mirror forward
Camera: Player-One Ares-C Pro
Mount: Celestron AVX (hypertuned)
Coma Corrector: Sharpstar Coma Corrector 0.95x
Filter: 2" Optolong L-eNhance filter
Guide Cam: ZWO 120mm mini
Guide Scope: SvBony 50mm
Acquisition
Capture Software: NINA
Guiding Software: PHD2
Mount Software: CPWI
Total Integration: 6hrs
Lights Settings: 1min x 120, 2mins x 120, Gain 130, Offset 25
Calibrated with darks, flats, and bias frames
Sky Conditions
Bortle 9
98%-3% Moon
Processing
- Stacked (2x drizzled) and processed in PixInsight with RC-Astro plugins (blurxt, noisext, starxt), DeepSNR, GraXpert, and Seti-Astro script to turn narrowband stars to rgb
- Lightroom
forest peak