Imaging telescope or lens:Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging camera:Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Mount:Sky-Watcher EZ-EQ6 GT
Guiding camera:Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PIXINSIGHT 1.8, Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS6
Filter:Ha 3nm
Accessories:Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel', Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System, Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Resolution: 4094x3522
Dates: March 20, 2018
Frames:
Ha 3nm: 12x1800" bin 1x1
Ha 3nm: 57x600" bin 2x2
Integration: 15.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 2.99 days
Avg. Moon phase: 9.76%
Astrometry.net job: 1993049
RA center: 94.736 degrees
DEC center: 22.920 degrees
Pixel scale: 2.176 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 0.284 degrees
Field radius: 1.632 degrees
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
The weather stopped me from getting equal integration times for each panel of this 4 panel mosaic, but I am quite happy how it turned out.
Most of the data collected was for the bottom right panel (p2) for which I have also got OIII and SII data (image to follow).
The panels are numbered as follows:
p3 | p1
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p4 | p2
p1: 18 x 600s bin 2x2
p2: 12 x 1800s bin 1x1 & 8 x 600s bin 2x2
p3: 17 x 600s bin 2x2
p4: 14 x 600s bin 2x2
Imaged over 17 nights from Nov 2017 to Mar 2018
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