Imaging telescopes or lenses: Televue TV-76
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI 1600MM Cooled Pro
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Celestron 50mm Guide Scope
Guiding cameras: Meade DSI Pro I Monochrome
Focal reducers: Televue 0.8x focal reducer / field flattener
Software: PixInsight 1.8 Pisinsight 1.8
Filters: ZWO OIII -7nm 36mm · ZWO H-alpha 36mm
Accessory: ZWO 7x 36mm Filter Wheel (EFW) · Intel NUC · Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 · QHYCCD Polemaster
Dates:May 11, 2019 , May 14, 2019
Frames:
ZWO OIII -7nm 36mm: 30x600"
ZWO H-alpha 36mm: 63x300"
Integration: 10.2 hours
Darks: ~50
Flats: ~25
Bias: ~50
Avg. Moon age: 8.43 days
Avg. Moon phase: 60.39%
Astrometry.net job: 2706153
RA center: 18h 18' 42"
DEC center: -13° 50' 18"
Pixel scale: 1.030 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -82.021 degrees
Field radius: 1.004 degrees
Resolution: 5866x3850
Data source: Backyard
"Pillars of Creation" is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth. They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that have recently formed.(Wikipedia)
This narrowband image was made from data captured using the HA and OIII filters, which allowed me to get good contrast and detail in the structure of the nebula, precisely in the star forming regions.
| Cloudy Nights |
| ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M |
| Narrowband imaging |
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