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Mounts: 10 Micron GM1000 HPS
Guiding cameras: 10Micron HPS System
Focal reducers: William Optics 0.8x Field Flattener Type III
Software: Pixinsight · APT - Astro Photography Tool
Filters: Baader Planetarium Ha 7nm · Baader Planetarium IR pass >685nm · Baader Planetarium Hb 8.5 nm
Dates:Jan. 21, 2017
Frames:
Baader Planetarium Ha 7nm: 29x200" -30C bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium Hb 8.5 nm: 29x500" bin 1x1
Baader Planetarium IR pass >685nm: 26x200" bin 1x1
Integration: 7.1 hours
Avg. Moon age: 23.54 days
Avg. Moon phase: 35.40%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00
Astrometry.net job: 1428112
RA center: 5h 34' 57"
DEC center: -5° 30' 10"
Pixel scale: 1.202 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 88.608 degrees
Field radius: 0.636 degrees
Resolution: 3062x2269
Locations: Castenedolo, Castenedolo, Italy
Here my latest Job: an unconvenional test with an IR Pass Baader Filter
It is a false color rendition of the Great Orion Nebula, obtained with amateur level instruments from a suburban, light polluted, sky in northern Italy:
The telescope is a William Optics FLT 110 Triplet APO with a 0.8x focal reducer on a 10Micron GM1000 HPS Mount.
The camera is an old SBIG ST 2000 XV Camera.
All the exposures was unguided
The first image is a pseudo-Hubble Palette
Red channel is mapped to an IR image (Baader Planetarium IR-Pass filter >685 nm)
Green channel is mapped to an H alpha image (Baader Planetarium 7nm bandwidth)
Blue channel is mapped to an H beta image (Baader Planetarium 8.5 nm bandwidth)
In my opinion this image is very interesting because it shows this ultraphotographed object in a new way for an amateur.
The hues from yellow to reddish-brown show dusty zones, where IR emission dominates on narrow band emission from hydrogen.
The hues from teal green to blue, follow the variations in the Halpha - Hbeta ratio (Balmer decrement).
The second image (Marked as B) is a map of the Balmer decrement (uncorrected for interstellar reddening) obtained by the ratio between the two narrow band images.
It is only a rough estimate of the real ratio because the Ha filter has a quite broad passband, but it can be interesting anyway.
As you know, the Balmer decrement depends on many factors, between them the electron temperature inside the nebula and the interstellar reddening.
Comparing the two images (See image C) it is easy to see a correlation between the dusty areas and a higher Balmer ratio (reddening), but it is also evident that there are uncorrelated structures for which a different explanation is needed.
The white and black pixel are out of range values in areas of the image where poor S/N is present.
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