24.10.2024, 20:20 - 20:33 CEST
Equipment
+ Canon EOS 600D
+ Sigma EF 50 mm F/1.4 at F/1.8
+ Remote shutter release and timer Triton MQTC01
+ Vanguard tripod Veo 3GO 235CB
Camera settings
+ ISO 3200
+ 129 x 3 s
Post-Processing
PixInsight 1:
Linear Stage
- cosmetic correction of CR2 raw files to remove hot pixels
- debayer
- comet alignment with automatic PSF fit turned off
- image integration with Windsorized Sigma Clipping pixel rejection
- dynamic crop
- DBE using GraXpert (Subtraction of background)
- BXT (AI version 4, sharpen stars= 0.33, Adjust star halos = 0.0, Automatic PSF, Sharpen Nonstellar = 0.53, LuminanceOnly)
- Background Neutralization
- Color Calibration
- SCNR to remove green colors
- GHS
Non-linear Stage
- NXT (Denoise=0.75, Detail=0.15)
- tiff export
Adobe Lightroom:
+ lens correction (chromatic aberration), tiff export
PixInsight 2:
- SXT
- create lum mask, invert and apply lum mask to starless image
- desaturate and darken the background
- add stars to starless image
- create and apply star mask
- increase star color saturation
Location: Near Neuwühren , Germany
- CS Daniel
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) and summer milkyway setting over a country lane near Neuwühren (Germany).
24.10.2024, 20:05 - 20:11 CEST
Equipment:
+ Canon EOS 600D
+ Canon EF 8-15mm F/4 L Fisheye USM @ 8 mm
+ Remote shutter release and timer Triton MQTC01
+ Vanguard tripod Veo 3GO 235CB
Camera settings:
+ ISO 6400
+ 2 x 10 x 15 s (2 panel mosaic)
Processing Adobe Lightroom:
+ lens correction (chromatic aberration)
+ tiff export
Sequator:
+ Freeze Ground (Selective)
+ Sky Region (Irregular Mask)
+ Reduce Light Pollution: Uneven, strength weak,
Intelligently-aggressive off
+ Reduce distortion effects (Complex)
PTGui:
+ create 2-panel mosaic
Adobe Lightroom:
+ color balancing & saturation corrections, histogram, contrast and curves transformations, jpeg export
Location: Near Neuwühren, Germany