Imaging telescopes or lenses: Takahashi FSQ-106 ED
Imaging cameras: Starlight Xpress SX-814 Trius Monochrome CCD
Guiding cameras: Starlight-XPress Lodestar Autoguider
Software: Sequence Generator Pro · Photoshop CS6 · PIXINSIGHT 1.8
Filters: Ha 3nm
Accessory: Lakeside Astro Motor Focus System · Starlight Xpress SX 'Maxi wheel' · Starlight Instruments FTF3545B-A Focuser
Dates:Oct. 16, 2019
Frames:
Astrodon 3nm SII: 22x1200" bin 1x1
Ha 3nm: 30x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 12.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 17.18 days
Avg. Moon phase: 93.53%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 8.00
Mean SQM: 18.30
Astrometry.net job: 2994564
RA center: 0h 51' 40"
DEC center: +56° 39' 0"
Pixel scale: 1.434 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.738 degrees
Field radius: 0.892 degrees
Resolution: 3414x2894
Locations: The Hills Observatory, Manchester, United Kingdom
Data source: Backyard
This is a deep image taken with Astrodon 3nm Ha filter. The conditions for two of the three nights this was imaged over were very poor with full Moon and an average SQM-L of 18.0, while the best night was 18.8 and no Moon. Most of the images were taken on the poor nights. This just goes to show how valuable narrow band filters are for those with poor skies.
So going deep on this means it looks very different to most images of this nebula and appears much larger.
All processing in PixInsight and final touches in Photoshop.
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