Imaging telescopes or lenses: PlaneWave CDK24
Imaging cameras: Finger Lakes Instruments KL4040
Mounts: PlaneWave L600 Equatorial Configuration
Software: PixInsight 1.8.8 Ripley · Software Bisque The Sky X Pro · CCDWARE CCD Inspector · DC-3 Dreams ACP Expert · PlaneWave Instruments PWI3/PWI4 · Maxim DL 6.20
Filters: Chroma LRGB
Accessory: Optec Sagitta OAG
Dates:Aug. 12, 2020
Frames: 305x120"
Integration: 10.2 hours
Avg. Moon age: 22.87 days
Avg. Moon phase: 42.33%
Astrometry.net job: 3953011
RA center: 16h 5' 27"
DEC center: +17° 45' 58"
Pixel scale: 0.621 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -128.768 degrees
Field radius: 0.345 degrees
Resolution: 2776x2880
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Sierra Remote Observatories
This is the only the third image that I've completed using my new "Final Frontier Telescope". It is a combination of just over 10 hours of subframes, which were shot between mid-July and mid-August of this year (260 minutes luminance and 350 minutes RGB, all un-binned). I reduced the image size for final presentation by 75%, since collimation and mount tracking had not yet been fully optimized when the raw subs were acquired. The final plate scale is about 0.62"/pixel, and the angular image size after cropping is about 28' x 30'.
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