Imaging telescopes or lenses: William Optics FLT 132 Triplet APO WOFLT132
Imaging cameras: QHY 16200A
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach 1 GTO
Guiding telescopes or lenses: William Optics FLT 132 Triplet APO WOFLT132
Guiding cameras: QHY-5-L-II-M QHY5-II Mono
Focal reducers: William Optics Reducer WO 0.80 #1
Software: PixInsight · Adobe Photoshop photoshop PS · Sequence Generator Pro · Adobe Lightroom LR
Filters: Astrodon Ha 3nm · Astrodon Tru-Balance LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Accessory: QHY Med OAG QHYOAG-M · Moonlite DRO focuser&rotator Moonlite DRO Focuser & Rotator · Optec Alnitak Flip-Flat Flat Fielder
Dates:Sept. 8, 2018 , Sept. 16, 2018 , Oct. 13, 2018 , Oct. 14, 2018
Frames:
B: 20x180" -15C bin 1x1
G: 20x180" -15C bin 1x1
L: 20x180" -15C bin 1x1
R: 20x180" -15C bin 1x1
Integration: 4.0 hours
Darks: ~15
Flats: ~15
Bias: ~15
Avg. Moon age: 11.20 days
Avg. Moon phase: 24.27%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 1.00
Astrometry.net job: 2385881
RA center: 0h 36' 47"
DEC center: +44° 28' 41"
Pixel scale: 2.295 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 107.589 degrees
Field radius: 0.738 degrees
Resolution: 1824x1426
Locations: Marathon Motel, Marathon Motel, TX, United States; MaRIO, Marathon, Texas, None
Data source: Own remote observatory
Star Center from Panel 1 of my 15 Panel Andromeda Mosaic. Data Acquired over the last three months from MaRIO (Marathon Astronomical Remote Imaging Observatory).
A labor of love and great effort. Such tremendous heavens require no less.
Panel 1 HD 3346 TYC 2796-2404-1
5th Magnitude Variable star in Andromeda. 617 light years from our solar system. It’s a red giant with a surface temperature of 3978 Kelvins, 31% cooler than our suns. It is 54 times our suns diameter.
It’s pulsating semi regulating magnitude varies from 5.1 to 5.2 over a period of 11.5 days.
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