ISS flyby trail in new processing

 Posted: Feb 20th, 2020
Technical Info
Telescope/Lens: Nikon 18-55mm.
Camera: Nikon D5300.
Software: DSS, Fitswork4, Gimp, Adobe Lightroom (мобильная версия).
Exposure:
1 x 136.7" ISO/Gain: 200
 Ussuriysk, Russia
2 m
2019
A photograph of the ISS transit, taken on February 3, 2020. It underwent deeper processing on February 18 and 19. First, I captured a series of flats (25 frames at 1/8 second exposure) to correct vignetting, edited them, and posted the result on Instagram. This was the first processing pass, done on February 14 and 15. Later, I discovered a huge number of hot pixels, so I captured a series of biases (28 frames at 1/4000 second exposure). But then I remembered that biases correct read noise, and hot pixels are not that. I had to capture a series of darks (7 frames with exposures ranging from approximately 134 seconds to 138 or 137 seconds). I had to stack and process everything again a second time.

In the end, the hot pixels were almost completely gone, and I was satisfied with the result.

I ask those viewing this photo to please comment if I made any mistakes in the processing or if you have any useful tips for shooting and processing astrophotography images.

Summary:
Lights: 1 frame.
Darks: 7 frames.
Biases/Offsets: 28 frames.
Flats: 25 frames.
Resolution: 6016x4016 px
Scale: 15390 KB
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