Imaging 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: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CS6 · PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Filters: Astrodon 3nm SII · Astrodon 3nm OIII · Ha 3nm
Accessory: Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System · Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel' · Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Dates:Dec. 24, 2018
Frames:
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 8x1800" bin 1x1
Astrodon 3nm SII: 10x1800" bin 2x2
Ha 3nm: 11x1800" bin 1x1
Integration: 14.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 16.75 days
Avg. Moon phase: 95.62%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Mean SQM: 18.35
Astrometry.net job: 2476328
RA center: 20h 49' 29"
DEC center: +30° 5' 34"
Pixel scale: 1.436 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.923 degrees
Field radius: 0.889 degrees
Resolution: 3414x2864
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
A small south west section of the Veil Nebula. I was inspired by this Hubble image for the colours.
I mapped Ha to red, OIII to blue and SII to green. This is a tone mapped image where all the stars are removed from each narrow band image and just the stars from the Ha image added back in.
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