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Jellyfish nebula IC 443, Duane Melvin
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Jellyfish nebula IC 443

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Jellyfish nebula IC 443, Duane Melvin
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Jellyfish nebula IC 443

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Description

Darkness: Clear skies, Bortle 6
Transparency: above average
Seeing: average
Moon: 3% waxing Crescent

25 subframes for a total of 325 Seconds for each subframe

10 Subs with L-Extreme Filter 2 inch dia mounted in Starizona magnetic tray; gain=100 offset=0
15 Subs with  Optolong L-Pro 2-inch dia mounted in Starizona magnetic tray; gain=100 offset=0
5 darks

Main Astro Camera: Orion G26 color, 16 bits, APS-C sensor, 26 MP, cooled to +2 Degrees C.

Telescope: Skywatcher Esprit 100ED Triplet Refractor  100mm x 550mm no reduction
Field Flattener: Esprit supplied flattener
Mount: EQ6R Pro
Scope Heat: SVbony wrap heaters 
Focusing: Hand-focused using Bahtinov Mask
Ambient temperature 0 Degrees C.
Location, Time, Date, Altitude Information: Synscaninit cellphone app
Exact N.C.P    RA axis Polar Alignment: QHY Polemaster Camera/Software tool

Guiding:  Orion Short Refractor 80mm x 300mm doublet 
                 Orion Starshoot TM camera on ST4 cable direct to mount

Software: Qhy Polemaster
                  PhD Guiding
                  Astrophotography Tool  (APT) for image capture
                  Deep Sky Stacker
                  Pixinsight/Star Xterminator
                  Photoshop/StarSpikes 4.0
                  Adobe Lightroom

First try, much more data will be added, more to come using QHY 294m pro and Antlia HA and OIII filters as this is an ongoing project
I need to see the blue wisps on the outer areas of this object!

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Jellyfish nebula IC 443, Duane Melvin