Sunday, June 8, 2025

Final stars-corrected Seestar S50 image of the Eagle nebula

This will be my last go at correcting the stars on the Seestar S50 image that had some star trailing that produced horizontally oval stars. This time I used all of the 2h worth of 30s data for the nebula from which I removed the stars. Then I used the stars from an image integrated from the best 21 minutes worth of 30s exposures which had no, or very little elongation; then I corrected these stars by 1 pixel using a method I have described in workflow 3. Then I added these stars back to the 2h worth of nebulosity. I am satisfied with the result. For my next EQ Seestar S50 experiment, I shall use 20s exposures initially as well as the official Seestar fluid head wedge.

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Final stars-corrected Seestar S50 image of the Eagle nebula


Steve Wainwright 

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