NGC 7000 North America and Pelican

Oct 12th, 2022

6 h 10 m

This is an old image from August 13, 2022. It was my first time trying to process it in PixInsight.

Aug 16th, 2022

6 h 10 m

The Uranus-C camera (IMX585) is good, but the field of view is just too small. I think I'll get out my old Canon 550Da with the filters removed and give it a try... I shot over two nights, capturing 52 frames at 10 minutes each, though there were clouds and other issues. I also took 15 darks, flats, and biases. In the end, I selected the 37 best frames based on sharpness and guiding error (thankfully Nina outputs that data for each frame), loaded them into Siril, and stacked with drizzle. Calibration and histogram stretching were also done in Siril; everything else was handled in Photoshop. I played around with masks a bit—I was tired of the single red tint from the L-extreme filter. All in all, it's still too early to write off the Canon.