Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher 80ED
Imaging cameras: Atik 428EX Mono
Mounts: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro Synscan Heq5pro
Focal reducers: WILLIAM OPTICS 0.8 Reducer/Field Flattner V.II
Software: photoshop · RegiStar · AstroArt v5 Astroart · Atik artemis
Filters: Baader Ha 7nm 2" · Baader LRGB 2'' Filters
Dates:Aug. 24, 2019
Frames:
Baader Ha 7nm 2": 3x600" -15C bin 1x1
Baader Ha 7nm 2": 12x900" -15C bin 1x1
RGB 1,25": 17x300" -15C bin 2x2
Integration: 4.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 23.00 days
Avg. Moon phase: 40.96%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Astrometry.net job: 2881548
RA center: 0h 1' 47"
DEC center: +64° 36' 32"
Pixel scale: 1.913 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 81.670 degrees
Field radius: 0.621 degrees
Resolution: 1890x1374
Locations: Home Observatory, SE London, Kent, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
This has got to be the faintest target I have ever done and doing it from my back garden at Bortle 8 made it even more of the challenge.
I could not find any data in Oiii or Sii - probably it needs a dark sky, so I did HaRGB.
SWED80 & Atik428EX
HEQ5
Ha 3 x 600 (then realised I needed to do longer subs)
Ha 12 x 900
Red 5 x 300 binned x 2
Green 7 x 300 binned x 2
Blue 5 x 300 x 2
Description: Cropped edges processing artifacts
Description: HLVG
| Women Astrophotographers |
| Broadband under Bortle 7/8/9 |
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