Cirrus of Cygnus, 



    
        

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Cirrus of Cygnus, 



    
        

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Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Canon EF 200mm f1.8
Imaging Cameras
QHYCCD QHY9M
Filters
OIII · SII · Baader Planetarium H-Alpha Filter
Accessories
Optec TCF-S
Software
Cartes du Ciel · photoshop · Maxim DL · CCDStack
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Meade LX200 GPS 12"
Guiding Cameras
Lodestar

Acquisition details

Dates:
Oct. 14, 2011
Frames:
90×1200(30h)
Integration:
30h
Avg. Moon age:
16.91 days
Avg. Moon phase:
94.89%

Resolution: 2954x1160

File size: 3.2 MB

Locations: Astro Anarchy Observatory, Oulu, Finland, Finland

Description

There are more images and info about this image in my blog, please, use a link under the image above to see more.

NOTE. This is a very large image, 3000 pixels wide, you should use the "View" button and select "Full Resolution" to see the image at its best!

The image above spans about 15 degrees of sky horizontally, that's 30 fool Moons side by side in a sky!

There are five panels seamlessly stitched together. Each panel has been shot three times for a color image by using emission line filters for Hydrogen, Oxygen and Sulfur. A camera lens, Canon EF 200mm f1.8, was used with a cooled astronomical camera, QHY9. Original image is over 17000 pixels wide . Total exposure time is around 30h, 10h for each channel. Camera lens was used full open at f1.8.

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Revisions

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  • Final
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    C

Histogram

Cirrus of Cygnus, 



    
        

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