The Heart of the Heart - IC 1805

[JimFox]

This is from the Seestar S50 from my Bortle 9 patio in California. So lot's of Light Pollution, and I decided not to do a Mosaic but to just do the single framing and focus in on the middle part of the Heart Nebula.

887 Subs @ 20 secs long with the Light Pollution Filter on.

I should try and do the same framing but in a darker sky location just to show the difference that darker skies make.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

My astro illiterate eyes wouldn't have know the difference in the light pollution if you hadn't mentioned it. Looks nice.

 

[Mike Lewis]

A great example of getting something under very difficult conditions when you might not have even bothered to try to image otherwise. Impressive results for 20 sec subs under LP...

ML

 

[JimFox]

My astro illiterate eyes wouldn't have know the difference in the light pollution if you hadn't mentioned it. Looks nice.

Thanks Alan, if you did Astrophotography, you would be able to see the difference.

 

[JimFox]

A great example of getting something under very difficult conditions when you might not have even bothered to try to image otherwise. Impressive results for 20 sec subs under LP...

ML

Thanks Mike. Yeah, I was desperate to get some Astro!

It did pretty good, though knowing what it would look like in darker skies, all of that really faint Ha, would look nice and red.

 

[Rick Nantais]

Hello
Sorry my ignorance but what this mean ?

887 Subs @ 20 secs long with ....

 

[Comet Hunter]

Hello
Sorry my ignorance but what this mean ?

887 Subs @ 20 secs long with ....

He took 887 images with a shutter speed of 20 sec's each, then stacked the all on top of each other to make 1 final image

 

[Rick Nantais]

He took 887 images with a shutter speed of 20 sec's each, then stacked the all on top of each other to make 1 final image

wow ! What a process... Are they large files ? Mpixels ?

 

[Comet Hunter]

wow ! What a process... Are they large files ? Mpixels ?

Yes, many of mine are 50 mb's each. Not sure about the Seestar camera though

 

[Rick Nantais]

Yes, many of mine are 50 mb's each. Not sure about the Seestar camera though

Take computer big memory to put together 887 images together...

 

[JimFox]

Take computer big memory to put together 887 images together...

Thanks Rick, it doesn't take that big of a computer, though I use a gaming laptop, which has a graphics card and lots of memory in it in order to run games.

The Seestar S50 has a built in Astro camera in it, and historically Astro cameras are very low megapixels. Only recently has there been crop and full frame astro cameras available to the consumer.

So the Seestar uses a 2mp sensor, so yeah the images aren't that large. But my regular Astro Rig, it's like Ed's, it uses a Sony 24mp sensor, so the images are typical of what we get with our regular cameras.