The Clear Sky Evening
The great Hercules Cluster
Astrophoto M13 Great Hercules Cluster Clear Sky 17.
An evening full of distance tests for my new flattener TSFlat2. I was not very successfull. Some of the testimages were used to stack this image of M13.
But there was one milestone i reached.
Here is the result:
Lessons Learned
1st thing learned: Configuring flattener distance is pain in the a**! I did not finish that this evening!
2nd thing learned: Successfully used platesolving with my equipment and EKOS. This saves me so much time and so many NERVES!
Technical overview of Astrophoto M13 Great Hercules Cluster Clear Sky 17
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
| Focal Length | 600mm |
| Aperture ratio | 7.5 |
| Erecting Lense | TSFlat2 |
| Filter | – |
| 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 Control | EKOS, INDI, Gphoto2 |
| Photography Date | 26.06.2021 |
| Exposure-Time Lights | 14x180s |
| Sensitivity | ISO 800 |
| Calibrationframes | Flats, Bias |
| Post Processing Date | 23.12.2021 |
| Stacking, Integration | Affinity Photo |
| Post Processing Software | Affinity Photo |
| Image Editing | Affinity Photo |
| Capture Place | Koblenz, Germany |
| Lightpollution | Bortle 5 |
| Scattered light | strong |
