Imaging telescopes or lenses: Explore Scientific 152 mm Carbon Fiber
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM-PRO
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion 80mm Short Tube
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar x2
Software: PHD2 · Sequence Generator Pro · PixInsight · Photoshop CS5 · SkySafari Pro
Filters: Astrodon Ha 5nm · Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · Astrodon OIII 3nm
Accessory: ZWO 8x 1.25" Filter Wheel (EFW) · QHYCCD PoleMaster · Hotech 2" SCA Self-Centering Field Flattener · MoonLite CFL 2.5" Large Format Focuser
Dates:Dec. 23, 2019 , Jan. 20, 2020 , Jan. 21, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 60x60" (gain: 0.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 60x60" (gain: 0.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon Ha 5nm: 522x120" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1
Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 60x60" (gain: 0.00) -20C bin 1x1
Integration: 20.4 hours
Darks: ~50
Flats: ~50
Bias: ~250
Avg. Moon age: 26.06 days
Avg. Moon phase: 13.38%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Astrometry.net job: 3251091
RA center: 4h 19' 58"
DEC center: +53° 9' 36"
Pixel scale: 0.649 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 50.998 degrees
Field radius: 0.497 degrees
Resolution: 4444x3260
Locations: Backyard White Zone Observatory, Taylor, MI, Michigan, United States
Data source: Backyard
With these winter months in Michigan comes with little nights of clear skies in capturing data of rare objects that require a lot of integration time. Not only patience is in order, but a lot of hope.
Sh2-207 is the larger of the two sharpness objects and the smaller SH2-208 is just to the right. It also has some interesting structure in that it almost resembles a tiny Rossette Nebula. The nearby Sh2-208 to the right it is close enough that even a longer focal length telescope can pick both up in the same field of view as seen here with my 152mm APO. Sh2-207 responds well to the Ha filter, but not so much with OIII and SII. A wider field of view will also pick up some nice nebula in the area more so to the right of SH2-208. This area is quite dim so long exposure time works best, which I tried my best given these horrible winter months here in Michigan.
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