Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging cameras: Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Guiding cameras: Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CS6 · PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Filters: Astrodon 3nm SII · Astrodon 3nm OIII · Ha 3nm · Red · Green · Blue
Accessory: Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System · Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel' · Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Dates:May 21, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 15x600" bin 2x2
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 8x120" bin 4x4
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 6x180" bin 4x4
Astrodon 3nm OIII: 1x300" bin 4x4
Astrodon 3nm SII: 14x600" bin 2x2
Astrodon 3nm SII: 8x120" bin 4x4
Astrodon 3nm SII: 1x300" bin 4x4
Astrodon 3nm SII: 6x360" bin 4x4
Blue: 4x60" bin 1x1
Blue: 17x30" bin 2x2
Green: 5x60" bin 1x1
Green: 18x30" bin 2x2
Ha 3nm: 15x600" bin 2x2
Ha 3nm: 8x120" bin 4x4
Ha 3nm: 7x300" bin 4x4
Red: 5x60" bin 1x1
Red: 18x30" bin 2x2
Integration: 10.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 17.39 days
Avg. Moon phase: 92.40%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Mean SQM: 18.50
Astrometry.net job: 2721298
RA center: 20h 13' 53"
DEC center: +38° 8' 52"
Pixel scale: 1.942 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.747 degrees
Field radius: 0.880 degrees
Resolution: 2478x2122
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
Not a high resolution image as I chose to take this at bin 4x4 and 2x2 to speed up the image acquisition and I really wanted to get the Soap Bubble Nebula and with the shorter lighter nights approaching I did not want to let this one run till next year.
Narrowband images taken as bins 4x4 and 2x2 and stars taken at bin 2x2 and a few at 1x1. Narrowband data processed after star removal with Starnet++ and RGB stars added back.
Starnet++ removed all the stars and I did not need to do any manual touching up, a fantastic program.
Imaged over 6 nights May 11-21 2019
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