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Image of the day 02/05/2021

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Rosette Nebula  (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars, Jian Yuan Peng
Rosette Nebula  (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars
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Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars

Image of the day 02/05/2021

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Rosette Nebula  (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars, Jian Yuan Peng
Rosette Nebula  (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars
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Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars

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Description

Rosette Nebula is always my favorite object during the winter. I just can't stop myself to slew the telescope to this Rose. We got about 8 days of the OK night sky during the first two weeks of January in the SF bay area. I was able to collect a reasonable amount of data.

Ha, OIII, and SII narrowband filters presented in the Hubble color palette plus the natural star color using R, G, and B filters.

Technical details:

Telescope: TEC 160FL + Astro-Physics 0.72x Quad Telecompressor Corrector

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 2 GTO

Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI6200MM

Software: PHD2, PixInsight, Lightroom 6.4, Sequence Generator Pro, Photoshop CS6

Location: Palo Alto, California, USA

PhotometricColorCalibration data:

Resolution ............... 0.958 arcsec/px

Rotation ................. -179.230 deg

Observation start time ... 2021-01-14 03:32:19 UTC

Observation end time ..... 2021-01-21 10:27:35 UTC

Focal distance ........... 809.31 mm

Pixel size ............... 3.76 um

Field of view ............ 2d 30' 7.9" x 1d 39' 2.4"

Image center ............. RA: 6 32 34.293 Dec: +4 56 00.63

Image bounds:

top-left .............. RA: 6 27 30.708 Dec: +4 07 27.16

top-right ............. RA: 6 37 32.424 Dec: +4 05 24.24

bottom-left ........... RA: 6 27 35.404 Dec: +5 46 28.70

bottom-right .......... RA: 6 37 38.619 Dec: +5 44 25.47

Filters: Astrodon 50mm Unmounted LRGB Gen2 E-Series Filter Sets

Astrodon 50mm Unmounted 3nm Narrowband Ha, SII, OIII filters

Blue 31x60" 11x120" 53 Minutes Bin1x1 1/14/2021, 1/20/2021

Green 31x60" 11x120" 53 Minutes Bin1x1 1/14/2021, 1/20/2021

Red 31x60" 11x120" 53 Minutes Bin1x1 1/14/2021, 1/20/2021

Ha 43x900" 6x1200" 12.75 Hours Bin1x1 1/14/2021 ~ 01/21/2022

OIII 45x900" 5x1200" 12.9 Hours Bin1x1 1/14/2021 ~ 01/21/2022

SII 42x900" 6x1200" 12.5 Hours Bin1x1 1/14/2021 ~ 01/21/2022

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Rosette Nebula  (Caldwell 49) SHO + RGB stars, Jian Yuan Peng