I had to tackle this piece of sky a few times now. Always when a new genuine milestone appeared in the world of astrophotography. The plugin BlurXTerminator was responsible for the new reprocess in 2024
High resolution on Flickr:
The side by side comparisons of my results
Here the comparison between the versions of 2022 and 2024:
And the both results of 2023 and 2024:
Technical overview
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
| Focal Length | 600mm |
| Aperture ratio | 7.5 |
| Erecting Lense | TSFlat2 |
| Filter | Optolong UV/IR Cut |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ-5 |
| Goto-Control | EKOS |
| Mount Control | INDI |
| Guiding Scope Focal Length | 162 mm |
| Guiding Camera Chip | 4.8mm x 3.6mm, 8bit |
| Guiding Camera Resolution | 1280×960 |
| Guiding Software | EKOS, INDI |
| Dithering | 3 pixel |
| Camera | CANON EOS M100(a) |
| Method | focal projection |
| Camera angle | -90° |
| Camera Control | EKOS, INDI, Gphoto2 |
| Photography Date | 08/07/2022 08/08/2022 |
| Exposure-Time Lights | 84x300s |
| Correction frames | FLATS, BIASES |
| Sensitivity | ISO 400 |
| Post Processing Date | 08/11/2022 |
| Reprocessing Date | 11/16/2023 |
| And another reprocess | 01/04/2024 |
| 2022 Stacking, Integration | PixInsight |
| 2022 Post Processing Software | PixInsight |
| 2023 Reprocessing | PixInsight |
| Image Editing | Affinity Photo |
| Capture Place | Koblenz, Germany |
| Lightpollution | Bortle 5 |
| Scattered light | strong |
