Here is my latest imagery captured from grand mesa observatory using Walter Holloway’s 130mm Takahashi and the QHY367C. Even though I am using this One Shot Color CMOS camera I captured The Heart Nebula using a Chroma 5nm H-Alpha Filter and combined data using the same techniques I do with Monochrome cameras, I hope you like the result which I think are my best of this object to date.
Image capture details
Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Whitewater, Colorado
Dates: September 21, October 30 2017
RGB 64 x 4 min
H-Alpha 24 x 10 min, (5nm Chroma Ha)
Total Integration time 8.3 hours
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Registed, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6
For comparisons please refer to my earlier imagery of this region:
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/albums/72157646963366983The “Heart Nebula” show the reddish glow of hydrogen atoms ener-
gized by bright stars that form inside this emission nebula. Lanes and patches of dark nebulae are also visible in the foreground of this star-
forming region of the Milky Way.
Read more about the Heart Nebula in our e-book "The Armchair Astronomer"
cosmicpursuits.com/e-books/armchair-astronomer-volume-1-n...
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