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Sombrero Galaxy – Hyperstar4

Posted on March 30, 2024March 31, 2024 By Cosmic Ken
Deep Space Objects, Galaxies

It was a dark but windy night here in SE Pennsylvania. Around midnight I was searching for something to image all night long. I ultimately decided, one the M104 the Sombrero galaxy. At 12:20 AM, I started with 30 second images at 150 gain. It was very windy!!! Today, I used the Blink tool in PixInsight and dropped all the elongated star images caused by the wind. I started out with 600 images, by the time I removed all thee bad images from the movement, I had 314 good ones. Using Weighted Batch Processing, I stacked the 314. Then processed it. \

I have to say, it is a lot better than the first image I did of the Sombrero galaxy with my DSLR. I am liking the Svbony 405c more and more. I really like the Hyperstar! F1.9 is the only way to go. I could not use full 4k imaging, I had to cut the field of view down in half so I could get the galaxy better.

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