Melotte 15 (heart of the "heart nebula") in Ha, Daniele Malleo

Melotte 15 (heart of the "heart nebula") in Ha

Melotte 15 (heart of the "heart nebula") in Ha, Daniele Malleo

Melotte 15 (heart of the "heart nebula") in Ha

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

A placeholder as I work my way through a tricolor acquisition.

Minimal processing: interestingly, even though there is a lot of details that could be sharpened out I keep going back to the smoother "fuzzier" version.

Exposures so far:

- 25 x 30m subs in Ha (5nm) acquired from my backyard on Oct, 8 and 9 2013.

total exposure time: 12.5 hours.

(RA, Dec) center: (38.3560697832, 61.4253399755) degrees

Orientation: 0.248578758146 deg E of N

Pixel scale: 0.617947472616 arcsec/pixel

Main Camera: QSI 583 WSG

Guide Camera: SXV Lodestar (on OAG)

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1

Scope: Celestron Edge HD 8" (FL: 2032mm)

Adaptive Optics Unit: SXV-AO-LF

Image Aquisition software MaximDL

Registed, Calibrated and Stacked in MaximDL

Post Processed with PixInsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6

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Melotte 15 (heart of the "heart nebula") in Ha, Daniele Malleo