LDN673 (David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro))

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Aquila (Aql) · Contains: 29 Aql · The star ω2 Aql

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LDN673

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LDN673

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After seeing this image done by one of my customers Robert I decided to have a go as I thought it was a very interesting target. Thanks for the inspiration @Robert Shepherd. Check out his version, it earned him Image of the day https://astrob.in/slbif4/0/.

Captured at PixelSkies, Castillejar, Spain

www.pixelskiesastro.com

Drizzle x2

Lum 100 x 300s
Red 100 x 300s
Green 99x 300s
Blue 97x 300s
Ha 213x 300s

50 hours 45 mins total.

Equipment used:

Telescope: Takahashi Baby Q FSQ-85ED F3.9

Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -20C

Image Scale: 2.8

Guiding: OAG

Filters: Astronomik Lum,Red,Green,Blue,Ha

Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition: Voyager

Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CC, StarXTerminator, StarNet v2, NoiseXTerminator, BlurXTerminator

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Title: LDN673

Description: When processing the LRGB version I noticed that there was some faint Ha in the background so I thought I would run some test images in Ha. The Ha was pretty faint so I started taking images until the moon was too bright and managed to capture just under 18 hours. I think it was well worth the extra effort collecting the Ha data.

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