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Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Sh2-129
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Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula, Yannick Akar
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Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula

Link: https://astrophotomannheim.de/images/sh2-129-ou4/
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Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula, Yannick Akar
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Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula

Link: https://astrophotomannheim.de/images/sh2-129-ou4/

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Celestron RASA 8"
Imaging Cameras
ZWO ASI1600MM Pro
Mounts
iOptron CEM60
Filters
Baader Blue (B-CCD) 2" · Baader Green (G-CCD) · Baader H-alpha Highspeed(f/2) · Baader O-III Highspeed(f/2) · Baader Red (R-CCD) · Baader S-II Highspeed(f/2)
Accessories
Celestron Focus Motor · Starizona Filter Slider (RASA 8 - ZWO)
Software
Adobe Photoshop · AstroSharp Ltd SharpCap · Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Omegon Microspeed guidescope 60mm
Guiding Cameras
ZWO ASI120MM

Acquisition details

Dates:
July 12, 2020 ·  July 18, 2020 ·  Aug. 22, 2020 ·  Aug. 28, 2020 ·  Sept. 4, 2020 ·  Sept. 8, 2020
Frames:
Baader Blue (B-CCD) 2": 80×30″(40′) (gain: 0.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Baader Green (G-CCD): 80×30″(40′) (gain: 0.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Baader H-alpha Highspeed(f/2): 310×180″(15h 30′) (gain: 75.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Baader O-III Highspeed(f/2): 700×120″(23h 20′) (gain: 75.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Baader Red (R-CCD): 80×30″(40′) (gain: 0.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Baader S-II Highspeed(f/2): 280×180″(14h) (gain: 75.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Integration:
54h 50′
Darks:
50
Flats:
50
Flat darks:
100
Avg. Moon age:
16.72 days
Avg. Moon phase:
52.89%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale:
7.00

RA center: 21h09m40s.28

DEC center: +59°53′39″.9

Pixel scale: 1.964 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 0.476 degrees

Field radius: 1.525 degrees

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Resolution: 4485x3335

File size: 17.7 MB

Locations: Home Garden (Est. Sky Quality: 19.16), Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Data source: Backyard

Description

My big summer project and also the biggest project I ever tackled in my 2-year astrophotography career. This object was definitely one of the hardest in post-processing, Ou4 literally drove my crazy. After about 5 hours on the OIII Channel I saw a first hint of some data ;-)

All in all 54.8 hours of exposure time over a period of 3 months (18 nights) between July and September and countless hours of processing went into this image.

Many other images of this object only used Halpha and OIII filters to create a bi-color image. However, I decided to add another 14 hours in the SII channel to add a touch of gold/yellow along its rim.

I just hope that I didn't overprossed it, after so many weeks I just want to call it a day

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    Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula, Yannick Akar
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Description: NASA APOD (10/07/2020)

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Sh2-129 & Ou4 - The Flying Bat and Giant Squid Nebula, Yannick Akar

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