Imaging telescopes or lenses: Lacerta Photonewton
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool
Mounts: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Software: Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. Pix Insight · APT - Astro Photography Tool APT 3.13
Filters: Astronomik H-Alpha 12nm · Astronomik LRGB 31mm
Dates:June 27, 2019
Frames: 210x180"
Integration: 10.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.08 days
Avg. Moon phase: 30.07%
Astrometry.net job: 2859250
Resolution: 3052x2287
Locations: my little astrofarm, Weppersdorf, Austria
Data source: Traveller
An Eagle nebula closeup with my 10" f/4 Lacerta Photonewton -
during the shortest nights of the year I did some sessions to collect subframes, using all 7 channels LRGB and SHO. There is the contrasty and star-free Hubble palette and the LRGB-SHO near what we think to be the true colors. (While we can never be sure, as our eyes are not sensitive for the deep red H-Alpha Balmer line, pitifully.) There is also a cropped version of the famed Pillars Of Creation - Zoltan Levays epic Hubble palette original (a little different, as he did not remove the stars), an annotated version, and a blinking picture to check the striking differences between the versions.
Camera ASI1600 mono at gain 75, Astronomik filters (narrowband 12nm), MGEN with APT to control camera and mount, processing with Pixinsight using the new module StarNet to remove stars (thank you Nikita, its great!), Photoshop for Hubble palette and overall refinements.
Description: M16 Hubble Palette - full field
Description: M16 LRGB-SHO full field
Description: M16 LRGB-SHO annotated
Description: M16 blink Hubble - LRGB versions
Description: enhanced version in comparison to the venerable Hubble picture
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