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I agreeImaging telescopes or lenses:Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging cameras:Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Mounts:Sky-Watcher EZ-EQ6 GT
Guiding cameras:Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software:Photoshop CS6 , PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Filters:Ha 3nm , Astrodon 3nm SII , Astrodon 3nm OIII
Accessory:Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System , Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel' , Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Dates:July 21, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 36x1800" bin 1x1
Astrodon 3nm SII: 36x1800" bin 1x1
Ha 3nm: 80x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 49.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 9.00 days
Avg. Moon phase: 66.90%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Mean SQM: 18.27
Astrometry.net job: 2347549
RA center: 21h 34' 41"
DEC center: +57° 38' 13"
Pixel scale: 1.052 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.468 degrees
Field radius: 0.892 degrees
Resolution: 3674x4880
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
A target I first attempted back in 2013 with the same telescope & mount, but back then I used a Canon 500D DSLR and only imaged in Ha.
Now I wanted to improve on that and make a colour version. This is all new data taken in June and July 2018 over 20 nights.
This is one of those rare images that I have not displayed with North at the top, North is to the right and top is East.
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