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Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Terry Hancock

Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae

Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Terry Hancock

Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae

Description

Captured in the early hours of June 15 using the QHY367C One Shot Color CMOS Camera with the Optolong L-Pro under a waning moon-lit sky (71%) from the Grand Mesa Observatory Colorado, on Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ130



Total Integration Time 2 hours and 6 mins



For comparison here is an earlier image from 2014 captured using a QHY11 Mono CCD

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Technical Information

Location: Grand Mesa, Whitewater Colorado

Captured June 15 2017

QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C

Size: 7376 x 4938 pixels

Pixel Size: 4.88um x 4.88um

Total integration Time 126 minutes

Gain 2850, Offset 76

Darks and Flats no Bias

63 x 120 sec @ 1x1

Optics: Takahashi FSQ-130 @ F5.0 650mm

Optolong Luminance Filter for IR Block

Paramount ME German Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition Maxim DL

Pre Processing Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processing Pixinsight & CS6



Please check out the new observatory at Grand Mesa Colorado www.grandmesaobservatory.com

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Lagoon & Trifid Nebulae, Terry Hancock