Hi, I’m Ian and I live in Surrey in the UK.
So, galaxy season has started and I’m already chasing some of the best-known targets.
In this video I show how I process M33 - the Triangulum galaxy in Pixinsight. Whilst this is a large galaxy it has certain complexities in processing to bring out the colours and some of the Nebula that are in the galaxy. One of the elements I used was a mask technique to enable work on the galaxy whilst protecting the stars and the background that I found on SoReal’s Entropia Universe channel.
I may return to do further alternatives of this target if I get more data in the coming weeks.
The final Image is fifty four 300 second images at gain of 120 and camera temperature at -10. One master dark and 60 Flats and 60 Dark Flats.
Main Equipment:
• Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED (Super APO Triplet)
• Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Field Flattener
All above acquired from FLO
• Sky-watcher EQ6-R-PRO equatorial mount
• ZWO ASI 294MC-Pro single shot colour camera
• ZWO 60mm Finder/Guidescope
• ZWO ASI 120MM Mini
• Baader 610mm Longpass Red Colour Filter
• ASIAir Pro
• ZWO IR/Cut Filter
• Topaz Denoise
• Photoshop
Music (at the beginning):
Isolated by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Source: incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Music (at the end):
Dream Escape by The Tides