Imaging telescope or lens:Home made 400mm F/4 Newtonian
Imaging camera:Quantum Scientific Imaging QSI583wsg
Mount:10 Micron GM2000 QCI
Guiding telescope or lens:Home made 400mm F/4 Newtonian
Guiding camera:Lodestar
Focal reducer:TeleVue Paracorr Type 2
Software:PixInsight, DC-3 Dreams ACP Observatory Control Software
Filter:Astromik H-alpha 6nm
Resolution: 3326x2504
Dates: Feb. 7, 2018
Frames: 7x1200"
Integration: 2.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 21.98 days
Avg. Moon phase: 51.77%
Astrometry.net job: 1923557
RA center: 112.249 degrees
DEC center: 13.251 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.615 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 267.957 degrees
Field radius: 0.355 degrees
Locations: Beilen Observatory B85, Beilen, Drenthe, Netherlands; Edgar Getreuer Observatory, Burlage, Germany
Data source: Own remote observatory
This is a combination of 7, 1200s H-Alpha images made in February and March 2017 from Beilen and January and February 2018 from Burlage. This is one of those objects that is hard to image due to the bad weather conditions this time of year.
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