M8 & M20 (SVBONY June Photography Challenge: Capture the Summer Duo)

@AstroBassDee

Number of Works 6

Deep Sky

June 22, 2026

Imaging Target: SVBONY June Photography Challenge: Capture the Summer Duo (M8 & M20)
Coordinates Captured: Germany / Lower Saxony
Main Cameras: 30mm Guide Scope | SVBONY SV165 ; USB3.0 Guiding Camera | SVBONY SV305C Pro ; Dew Heater Strip | SVBONY SV192 ; Cooled Color OSC Camera | SVBONY SV405CC ; 0.8x Reducer/Flattener | SVBONY SV193 ; APO Triplet Refractor | SVBONY SV550 80 ; Multi-Narrowband Filter | SVBONY SV240 ; M54 Filter Drawer | SVBONY SV226 ;
Auxiliary Guiding & Accessories: EXOS-2 with OnStep Kit. Gemini Autofocuser. Raspberry PI5 with EKOS and PHD2.

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Description

55 x 120 Sec. Calibration: darks, flats and darkflats. Processed in Siril with background extraction (GraXpert AI), spcc, abberation remover, denoising (GraXpert AI), StarNet++ for star removal and recomposition, stretching: ghss and histogram for starless, asinh and histogram for starmap. veralux curves for color saturation.

Background Introduction

I'm an astrophotographer based in Lower Saxony, Germany, imaging from a Bortle 4 site. My setup consists of an SV405CC cooled color OSC camera on an SV550 80ED refractor with the SV193 0.8× focal reducer, mounted on an EXOS-2 with OnStep GoTo. Guiding is handled by PHD2 with an SV165/SV305C Pro, focusing via Gemini autofocuser, and the whole rig is controlled remotely through a Raspberry Pi 5 running KStars/Ekos.

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