Imaging cameras: Canon EOS 60D mod
Mounts: SkyWatcher HEQ5 SynScan
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Orion Mini 50mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: Lacerta M-Gen II
Software: Adobe Lighroom · Photoshop · Pleiades PixInsight
Filters: STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter
Accessory: TS Optics PHOTOLINE APO Flattener Corrector (TSFLAT72)
Dates:April 8, 2020
Frames:STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter: 75x300" ISO800
Integration: 6.2 hours
Darks: ~20
Flats: ~20
Bias: ~200
Avg. Moon age: 15.22 days
Avg. Moon phase: 99.77%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
Astrometry.net job: 3835389
RA center: 0h 51' 57"
DEC center: +56° 33' 32"
Pixel scale: 1.999 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 60.192 degrees
Field radius: 1.471 degrees
Resolution: 4410x2940
Locations: Balkon, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany
Data source: Backyard
Here is my version of the nebula, taken under poor conditions: at full moon. I had some halos around the bright stars, so I tried to reduce them with PI using wavelets (method by Nuno Pina Cabral).
| Duo-band, Tri-band, and Quad-band Imaging |
| Suburban Astrophotography |
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