Atik Infinity Photos (February 12, 2018)
Introduction | Photos | References
On this page I present photos taken with the Atik Infinity camera on February
12, 2018.
Introduction
The following photos were my seventh attempt with the Atik Infinity camera.
- Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS
- Accessories: Celestron StarSense
This was my second attempt with the Explorer 150PDS and my first successful
with the StarSense module for automatic alignment.
Details
On February 12, 2018, the sky was finally clear again, so that I built up
my Explorer 150PDS telescope with GoTo mount, but actually in order to get
my new Celestron StarSense module up and running in the second attempt - in
the first one, I had failed. I succeeded and then was tempted to connect the
Atik Infinity camera to the telescope and look for some "Winter" DSOs:
M 35-38 and M 42. The results were quite satisfactory and, of course, the Orion
Nebula impressed me.
Photos
The following photos were taken with the Explorer 150PDS on the Star Discovery
AZ GoTo mount (with StarSense module) and saved as 16-bit TIFF files:
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M 35 (Gemini), unprocessed |
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Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
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Ditto, post-processed more aggressively and sharpened |
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M 36 (Auriga), unprocessed |
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Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
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Ditto, post-processed more aggressively and sharpened |
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M 37 (Auriga), unprocessed |
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Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
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Ditto, post-processed more aggressively and sharpened |
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M 38 (Auriga), unprocessed |
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Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
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Ditto, post-processed more aggressively and sharpened |
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M 42 (Orion), unprocessed |
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Ditto, post-processed and sharpened |
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Ditto, made lighter |
The following versions of the photos above were created later:
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Ditto, once again created from the unprocessed original in one step |
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Ditto, processed to be brighter |
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Ditto, created from "replay stack" in one step |
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Ditto, same as left, more saturated |
Photos taken with Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS (February 12, 2018)
References
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