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Astrophoto: Pelican Nebula – IC 5070 – 09/22

While reprocessing all my “old” material, this is the first picture I took with my Vixen VC200L. The difference is hard to believe.

Two weeks after i shot this object with my APO, I did it again with my VISAC.
Same object, same exposure time, same camera, different telescope: Astrophoto: Pelican Nebula IC 5070 – 08/22 – astrography.eu
VC200L instead of ED80sf.

This is the very first test, hard to talk about first light when you a re working with a 20 year old telescope, with my VC200L VISAC. I had really bad seeing and still the 50/162mm guidescope. From now on I ll guide with a 60/240mm guidescope.

High resolution on Flickr:

Pelican Nebula VC200L

The side by side workflow comparison

Technical overview

TelescopeVIXEN VISAC VC200L
Focal Length1280mm
Aperture ratio6.4
Erecting Lense / Reducer0.71 Reducer
Filter
MountSkywatcher HEQ-5
Goto-ControlEKOS
Mount ControlINDI
Guiding Scope Focal Length162 mm
Guiding CameraQHY 5-III-462C
Guiding SoftwareEKOS, INDI
Dithering5 pixel
CameraCANON EOS M100(a)
Methodfocal projection
Camera angle-90°
Camera ControlEKOS, INDI, Gphoto2
Motor-Focus
Photography Date08/30/2022
Exposure-Time Lights21x300s
Correction framesFLATS, BIASES
SensitivityISO 400
Processing Date08/31/2022
Reprocessing Date01/06/2024
Stacking, IntegrationPixInsight
Processing SoftwarePixInsight
Image EditingAffinity Photo
Reprocessing SoftwarePixInsight
Capture PlaceKoblenz, Germany
LightpollutionBortle 5
Scattered lightstrong

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