Imaging telescopes or lenses: Celestron RASA 11"
Guiding telescopes or lenses: TS-Optics Guidescope 328/80
Software: PixInsight PixInshight Core 1.8 Ripley · Sequence Generator Pro Seqence Generator Pro · Stark Labs PHD2
Dates:Dec. 17, 2020
Frames: 400x90"
Integration: 10.0 hours
Avg. Moon age: 3.06 days
Avg. Moon phase: 10.23%
Astrometry.net job: 4217797
RA center: 5h 34' 56"
DEC center: -5° 12' 47"
Pixel scale: 1.253 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -32.445 degrees
Field radius: 1.754 degrees
Resolution: 6483x7718
Data source: Backyard
Thanks to my friend Ed Defesche who did a marvelous job on repairing the crappy background gradient on this image.
I figures I had not done an M42 image since just after I got my scope two years ago so it was about time to do a new version.
Note that I used a single sub length for the full dynamic range of this picture. I binned 2x2 to increase the full well of the 6200mm and it is amazing what this camera can do.
The frame is produced by the "annotation frame" PixInSight script, see my other pictures for a link to the script download.
Description: Version without frame
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