Spaghetti Nebula - Sh2-240 - SHO (Anis Abdul)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: PK178-02.1 · Sh2-240

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Spaghetti Nebula - Sh2-240 - SHO

Finally Sh2-240 in the bag!

I have been trying to shoot this almost every year and never had the FOV to complete it. I have attempted 6 panel mosaic with the QSI690! Naively thinking I will get enough time to actually complete all those panels. I also have attempted 4 panel mosaic with QSI683. I could never get enough time to complete it. This time, with the QHY600, I have large enough FOV to do this in 2 panel (I could have fit this in a single panel if I had the reducer attached).

My original plan was to shoot SHO (at least for the stars) and it was pretty clear that most time had to be spent on Ha to eke out the details. I did 25 hours for Ha for both panel and 8 hours of OIII and SII for each of the panel.

Total integration time is 50 hours of Ha and 16 hours of OIII and 16 hours of SII . However, the "depth" of data is only 4``1 hours . It has been tough to process it. I

Per panel:

Ha - 100x15 minutes

OIII - 16 x15 minutes

SII - 16 x 15 minutes

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B
Final
C

C

Description: Minor adjustment to background. A bit more NR to get rid of the gnarly bits due to over stretching

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RA (center)	05h40m42s.75
RA (top/left)	05h31m03s.64
RA (top/right)	05h50m43s.60
RA (bottom/right)	05h50m41s.30
RA (bottom/left)	05h30m20s.75

Dec (center)	+27°58′02″.9
Dec (top/left)	+26°04′00″.2
Dec (top/right)	+26°10′05″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°49′18″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+29°43′23″.9

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