Wednesday, August 20, 2025
The Elephant Trunk Nebula with the Dwarf 3 telescope.
This is a slightly cropped image of the Elephant Trunk Nebula. Total integration was 3.1 hours. The image was stacked and stars were fixed in Stellar Studio. I then imported the FIT file into Siril, performed photometric calibration, removed the stars, stretched the image, and saved as a TIFF file. I tweaked the TIFF in Affinity 2 and saved as a PNG.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
The Wizard Nebula with the Dwarf 3 Telescope
This image of the Wizard Nebula has almost 12 hours of integration time. Individual integration times were 45s and 60s. I used Siril for stacking, histogram adjustment and star processing. Additional processing was performed with Cosmic Clarity and Affinity Photo 2. Bortle 8/9.
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