Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art
Imaging cameras: Nikon D810
Mounts: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Guiding telescopes or lenses: StarField 60mm Guidescope 215mm FL
Guiding cameras: Altair Astro GPCAM2 290 Mono
Software: PixInsight 1.8.5 · Adobe Phosotshop CC 2018
Accessory: Celestron Red Dot Finder
Dates:Nov. 30, 2019
Frames: 42x300"
Integration: 3.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.92 days
Avg. Moon phase: 16.41%
Astrometry.net job: 3623265
RA center: 3h 55' 8"
DEC center: +30° 7' 1"
Pixel scale: 26.588 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 89.384 degrees
Field radius: 9.064 degrees
Resolution: 2048x1353
Locations: Solar Site, Beckwith Township, Ontario, Canada
Data source: Backyard
The plan was to capture the wonderful interstellar dust field between the M45 reflection nebula (blue) and the H-alpha rich emission nebula (red) known as The California Nebula.
A previous attempt was thwarted by my choice of lens. It was an excellent short telephoto for daytime use, but the colour fringing when used for Astrophotography was appalling.
I am quite please with this result; but as opinions may vary, I will leave it to the individual viewer to pass judgement.
Seeing 2/5.
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