Gathered more data and did a very simple processing. Very simple noise reduction.
I had a lot of problem capturing the Tulip Nebula because of some issues with probably my mount, my alignment, my guider or simple because of the weather. It was very windy in the past few days and couldn’t control. Anyway, I tossed half of my data worth around 5 hours of exposure.
Also I replaced my Orion OIII Filter and used an Astronomik OIII 12nm CCD Filter. It looked better than the Orion as it is causing same halo on my images.
The Pinwheel Galaxy is a spiral galaxy. It has a distance to Earth of about 21 million light years. It is a face off galaxy to Earth and beautiful to see all the galactic arms.
The Whirlpool Galaxy also known as M51a is an interacting spiral galaxy with an active galactic nucleus. It is in the constellation of Canes Venatici and is about 15 to 35 million light-years.
The Sombrero Galaxy also known as M104 is a spiral galaxy in the Virgo Constellation and is about 31.1 million light years away from Earth. The galaxy looks like a sombrero from the Earth view point.
Just testing my Mavic Pro Platinum footage while testing the PolarPro NB8/PL Filter. There’s some erratic behavior in the gimbal that sometimes it’s jumping and at the near of the end of the footage, you’ll see me testing the gimbal by manually maneuvering the drone.
Yes I upgraded my desktop that I primarily use for processing my astrophotos and did a little bit of PixInsight benchmark and here are the results.
UPDATE
While doing a lot of performance optimization to my rig, I noticed some slow performance and wasn’t really happy with it so I decided to do a clean install once again. We’ll this time the rig is more stable and the recent results for the PixInsight benchmark proved my findings. With a gain of 3,713 points of the total performance score with a little bit of a tweak and installing the system on the M2 drive proved it’s worth effort.
