Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi TOA-130 APO Refractor
Imaging cameras: QSI 6162 monochrome
Guiding cameras: Starlight Xpress Lodestar Off Axis Guider
Focal reducers: Takahashi TOA35 x0.7 Reducer TOA Reducer
Software: Adobe Photoshop 2020 · Sky Safari Pro · PHD2 Guiding 2.6.6 PHD2 · Topaz Denoise DeNoise · Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions · Nik Software, Inc. Nik Filters
Filters: Chroma Blue · Chroma Green · Chroma Red · Chroma Luminance · Chroma OIII 3nm O3 · Chroma Ha 5nm Chroma Ha
Accessory: Kendrick Standard Dual Channel Controller
Dates:Sept. 11, 2020
Frames:
Chroma Blue: 24x180"
Chroma Green: 24x180"
Chroma Ha 5nm Chroma Ha: 10x1200"
Chroma Luminance: 11x500"
Chroma Red: 28x180"
Chroma OIII 3nm O3: 6x1200"
Integration: 10.7 hours
Avg. Moon age: 23.19 days
Avg. Moon phase: 38.95%
Astrometry.net job: 3841287
RA center: 1h 2' 44"
DEC center: -71° 36' 14"
Pixel scale: 2.344 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 176.739 degrees
Field radius: 1.231 degrees
Resolution: 2305x3000
Locations: Burwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Data source: Backyard
Overshadowed by it's more famous neighbour 47 Tuc, NGC 362 is a young Globular cluster, located in the constellation Tucana in the Southern Hemisphere, slightly north of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Pictured also is the blueish NGC 346, and it's many Ha rich nebulous companions, which resemble cherry blossoms in spring. NGC 346 is the brightest star-forming region in the neighbouring Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, some 210 000 light-years away from Earth.
This was also testing the latest round of tilt and eccentricity corrections done to the Tak TOA130 ota & focuser combined with the TOA/FS reducer. Seems all of my ASV colleague Stefan Buda's hard work has paid off, yielding round stars across the frame!
Taken in Covid iso from my light polluted backyard in Suburban Melbourne, Australia. Processed in AstroPixel Processor, PS CC2020 , with Starnet ++, Nik & Topaz plugins.
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