Imaging from a light polluted balcony with a RASA8 telescope and ASI183MC colour camera. The RASA8 faces the eastern night sky and is able to capture 3 hours of data per night. It is paired with a Rainbow Astro RST135E strain wave mount, all controlled via a laptop running NINA and CDC (SkyChart).
My current workflow (July 2025) is AstroPixel Processor > Graxpert > Siril.
AstroPixel Processor creates a master calibrated “light” 32bit FIT, Graxpert to remove background gradients and noise, Siril is used for photometric colour calibration and to run StarNet,
Below is a single 60 second “sub” exposure straight out of the camera with an automatic stretch applied viewed in ASIFitsView using right click to save a jpg file.
The final image – 180 * 60 second sub exposures. Incredible what is possible with today’s gear and software.
