Mandel-Wilson 2 - tough one for London

[Roberto]

I managed to make the most of the good spell of weather we had a week ago and captured over 22 hours of data for this one. It's a very faint object to image from London as, although it sits high up in the North sky, it rides over the LP dome of London.
More information here:
https://www.astrobin.com/393499/C/?nc=user  - check the annotated version for all the background galaxies!

And image here:

[JohnP]

Excellent again Roberto - love your processing technique. I'd be really interested to see what a single raw looks like?

Cheers,  John

[Roberto]

Hi John

Attached is a single shot of 600s, calibrated and stretched.   This is one of the cleanest sub-frames taken around culmination at 1AM.

Roberto

[JohnP]

Thks Roberto. Amazing detail for a single 10 min sub. I love all the background galaxies. No idea what your workflow is from raw to finished image but really like your subtle processing technique.  Cheers,  john

[Roberto]

John
Thank you. When I first started using PixInsight to do all my processing, I followed the procedures set out in Warren Keller's online tutorials:  https://www.ip4ap.com/index.htm
I think he's added even more since and there are other sources such as Adam Block's.
Roberto

[MarkS]

A tough one for London.  Now that's an understatement! I think you've done an excellent job there.

You have certainly earned my respect by imaging interstellar dust from the London suburbs!!

Mark

[Roberto]

Thank you Mark! Much obliged 

[RobertM]

Sorry for the late reply.  I've seen this image earlier but thought it deserved more time to fully appreciate the detail.  It's a superb result from anywhere let alone a London suburb !  As well as the dust there are all those groups of background galaxies.  22 hours is a lot of exposure but it's needed with our skies, I think that's three times longer than I've ever done.  Voyager is certainly giving you some excellent data to work with and the processing is nice and subtle, I like it a lot.

Robert

[Roberto]

Thanks you Robert, very kind. I hope you have solved the driver issues and Voyager is working for you now.
Roberto