Horsehead and Flame

After a couple of more attempts I realized that there might be a problem with the way I was grabbing the data, so I bought Nebulosity 2.0 and tried grabbing the frames with it and I think it came out well. This is 25x2m light frames with 60 flat frames and 60 bias frames.



One more thing I realized is that I definitely needed longer exposures for most objects. I was doing 20s and 30s exposures but longer would definitely help. I stacked with DeepSkyStacer using AHD for debayering, sigma clip for calibration frames and auto adaptive weighted average for the light frames. I am pleased with the results. Obviously there is a lot of improvement to be had, but this is a great start. The optical train is Celestron C8 + Hyperstar + IDAS LPS-P2 + QHY8.

Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula and the Flame Nebula is an emission nebula. Both very beautiful targets.