North of Orion's Belt NASA APOD 11/4/2020 (Terry Hancock)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: M 78 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · NGC 2112 · The star 51Ori · The star 56Ori · The star 59Ori · The star 60Ori

North of Orion's Belt NASA APOD 11/4/2020, Terry Hancock

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North of Orion's Belt NASA APOD 11/4/2020

Link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap201105.html

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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North of Orion's Belt NASA APOD 11/4/2020

Link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/fap/ap201105.html

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

Captured on September 27th at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing.

This is work in progress as the conditions on the night of capture were quite poor with smoke from California wild fires that have plagued us for the past 3 months.

A stream of red emission dominates this close up shot of part of Barnards Loop otherwise known as Sh2-276 , a large emission Nebula and part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. The image also nicely captures areas of dark nebulosity LDN 1622 which lies at a distance of 500 light years as well as the blue reflection nebula of M78 located some 1,600 light years away, M78 hosts 17 Herbig-Haro objects (patches of nebulosity created by young stars whose jets collide with nearby dust and gas).

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Technical Info:

Total Integration time 1.83 hours

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: September 27th 2020

Color RGGB 110 min, 55 x 120 sec

Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS

Gain 0, Offset 76

Read Mode: High Gain Mode

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

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