IC-410 The Tadpoles Nebula

[JimFox]

I have spent several nights capturing this one, with about 3 hours a night on it before the roof gets in the way. It's also captured with the Seestar S50. This is where the smart telescopes are so nice. I have been super busy, so I am getting home after it's already dark. I hadn't set up my regular astro rig because the weather forecast kept saying there would be some clouds at night, but then every night the clouds forget to show up. So the Seestar I can get it up and running in about 6 mins. So although it's IQ is not as good as my regular astro rig, it's adequate enough, and it's the versatility of being able to get it up and running on a moment's notice that's awesome. Because images of average quality is better then no images at all.

This is 2300 images, mostly 10 second images, with a few 30 sec subs thrown in. I processed it with the HOO palette.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

2300 images? How long does it take your computer to work through that many images to make a composite like this? I'm pretty sure I heard it groaning all the way up here when you processed this

Nice result.

 

[Comet Hunter]

Was 2300 a typo? The SeeStar never seems to disappoint. Nicely done.

 

[JimFox]

2300 images? How long does it take your computer to work through that many images to make a composite like this? I'm pretty sure I heard it groaning all the way up here when you processed this

Nice result.

It took a few hours for sure. I will start ones like these before I go to bed.

This isn't a composite, it's just stacked.

 

[JimFox]

Was 2300 a typo? The SeeStar never seems to disappoint. Nicely done.

Hey Ed, I should have switched to a longer sub length, but when doing Mossics, which this isn't but I have been doing a lot, at 10 secs it can finish the first pass of the Mossic in about an hour. But if I go for 30 sec subs it takes almost 2.5 hours. And with the trees and such around my place in California sometime it won't be able to finish the mosaic. So 10 secs at least gets it finished, and then it can just keep running and adding more layers to the image, but at least the mosaic is filled in, so I can go back and stack in Pixinsight.

 

[Comet Hunter]

Understood.... lol

 

[Andy Elliott]

Nice one Jim. Do you use fast integration in PI for your Seestar images? I tend to stick with 10s subs for mosaics for the same reason.

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Jim. Do you use fast integration in PI for your Seestar images? I tend to stick with 10s subs for mosaics for the same reason.

Thanks Andy!

I only recently started doing the 10 sec subs, and I didn't state it though I should have, that the subs in this were captured over a couple month period, so that's why there were so many. It also had some 30 sec subs thrown in there for good measure. I left out the kitchen sink was all that didn't go in.

So, I used WBPP as I have never tried stacking this many images before, but I had read from others about their using FP, or using Image Integration on them. With WBPP, it slowed to a very very slow crawl in the Integration part of WBPP. It was only at 15% on Part 1 of 3 and had been at it for 6 hours. So I canceled it, and then took the Registered files from the WBPP process and just used Image Integration to stack them. That worked well.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Wow Jim, as mentioned above, that's a lot of subframes! Looks like a decent result - some very nice detail in there.

ML