Messier 44, Behive Cluster
There was no other object until now, where i got data from more sessions than from the Beehive Cluster. I think it were 4 or 5 evenings. The final picture was processed using data from 3 evenings.
In May i processed the data from all 3 evenings with Affinity Photo. I reprocessed the data in december 2023.
Lessons Learned
Since i did the processing a few weeks after i collected the data, i can’t really remember any problems. Dithering worked!
High resolution on Flickr:
Session details
| Telescope | VIXEN ED80sf |
|---|---|
| Effective focal length | 600 mm |
| Camera | Canon EOS M100 |
| Mount | Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro |
| Guiding equipment | TS-Optics 50 |
| Guiding camera | Omegon 1200b |
| Date of capture | 2021-02-28 2021-03-01 2021-04-27 |
| Nights | 3 |
| Exposure (lights) | 56 × 120 s |
| Total integration | 1 h 52 min |
| Calibration frames | FLATS, BIAS |
| Sensitivity | ISO 400 |
| Capture setup | Ubuntu, EKOS/INDI |
| Processing | 2021-05-22 – Affinity Photo, Siril |
| Reprocessing | 2023-12-24 – PixInsight, Affinity Photo |
| Location | Koblenz |
| Focal ratio | f/7,5 |
| Image scale | 1,28 ″/px |
| Field of view | 128,0 × 85,3 ′ |
