{"id":1010,"date":"2019-12-23T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T09:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2019-12-26T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T11:04:57","slug":"m42-by-astrokam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"M42 by CHDK AstroKam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/M42-191221-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1011\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/M42-191221-1024x819.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/M42-191221-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/M42-191221-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>M42 by Canon SX530HS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another shot taken with my \u00a395 SX530HS. Software = CHDK, Astrokam, ASPS, PHD2, DSS, StarTools and Paint.Net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/Powershotters\">Powershotters<\/a> group who asked for some details on how I processed this image. Here is a light image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/light.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1016\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/light.jpg 640w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/light-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Original light image. 180sec, 1600ISO, full aperture, 50x optical zoom.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>and here is a dark image<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/dark.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/dark.jpg 640w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/dark-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Dark image<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The 48 light and 15 dark images were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with 25 flats and 15 offsets to produce the FITS image below. This was then processed in StarTools to give the final result above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/stacked.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1017\" srcset=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/stacked.jpg 640w, http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/stacked-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>FITS result in Deep Sky Stacker<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another shot taken with my \u00a395 SX530HS. Software = CHDK, Astrokam, ASPS, PHD2, DSS, StarTools and Paint.Net. I am a member of the Powershotters group who asked for some details on how I processed this image. Here is a light image: and here is a dark image The 48 light and 15 dark images were <a href='http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=1010' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrokam","category-deep-sky","category-8-id","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}