12 Billion light years distant Quasar, FIRST J07472+2739, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smartscope. (morrienz)

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12 Billion light years distant Quasar, FIRST J07472+2739, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smartscope.

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12 Billion light years distant Quasar, FIRST J07472+2739, with a cheap ZWO Seestar S50 smartscope.

The extremely distant quasar FIRST J07472+2739, Mag 17.2 and quite red in colour, distance (light travel time) approx 12 billion light years, (R.A. 07h47m11.2s Dec.: +27°39'03, J2000 epoch), with my 50mm (2 inch) aperture Seestar. Captured from my fairly dark (Bortle 2/3) rural sky in New Zealand, which I think shows that the Seestar has some decent optics in it. I used 2x drizzle with the Seestar stacking (with Astro Pixel Processor) as I couldn't seem to get the quasar resolved/visible in the stacked Seestar image without using drizzle. I should stress that it took a lot of processing work to get this extremely distant Quasar visible from a Seestar stack, as I had to try 3 different nights to get a good enough stack, and then also use all my Pixinsight and other processing tricks that I've slowly learned over a long time at this game to bring it out, whereas it was much more easily resolved/visible in a stack from my 10 inch aperture CDK250 Corrected Dall Kirkham big rig on my 10Micron mount. The red colour of the quasar I think may have made it hard to resolve amongst the background/noise in the image than a 17.2 magnitude object of whiter/bluer colour, as I've seen a few Seestar images resolving some white/blue stars down to 19th, even 20th magnitude.

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