Sh2-247, Sh2-248, Sh2-249 and Sh2-252 in SHO, HOO stars (Uwe Deutermann)

Sh2-247, Sh2-248, Sh2-249 and Sh2-252 in SHO, HOO stars

Revision title: more stars

Another wide field for the ASKAR 400 that I could not pass on. I admit, when getting a new scope the impatience gets me all the time, especially knowing that the number of clear nights is really low, and the Winter targets are disappearing fast. And this scope/camera combo is definitely not made for galaxy season. Well, maybe I should get a deep field like Hubble together 😊, yeah, maybe I will target all Spring long one and the same area in the sky and just keep on going, would be interesting to see this result, doubt though that this will produce a great image.
I am not necessarily super happy with this image, I am missing maybe some action between the 2 main targets, makes it almost too boring. There is also not the greatest color variation in the nebula, although I was happy to see more of the bluish area of Sh2-249 compared to my previous attempts.
I did not have time to switch the filter wheel for the RGB stars, moon was out at that time as well. Hence the stars were created by adding the Hα and OIII stars together as HOO, with a green SCNR, actually they came out quite ok like that. And due to the 3nm filters the 2 big menaces Tejat Prior and Posterior were tamed nicely.
After posting the original image which looks quite well on my monitor I decided to brighten the background a bit more, and also ultimately chose to mark the version with more stars as the final image, it just looks better here on Astrobin, not necessarily like the original image on my desktop.
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