Captured over 3 nights from Grand Mesa Observatory, Purdy Mesa, Colorado using the QHY367C Full Frame Color CMOS camera and the Holloway TAK130-FSQ
Total Integration time 3.2 Hours
The image is dominated by Barnards Loop, otherwise known as Sh2-276, a large emission Nebula and part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Spanning some 300 light years across, you can see the immensity of Barnards Loop in this wide field image
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/27262832549/in/datepos...Also visible in this image at bottom right is the dark nebula LDN 1622 which lies at a distance of approximately 500 light years from earth. At upper left can be seen M78, one of the brightest diffuse reflection nebula in the sky
Located 1,600 light years away, M78 hosts 17 Herbig-Haro objects (patches of nebulosity created by young stars whose jets collide with nearby dust and gas).
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www.instagram.com/p/Bg0EEkqHGob/?hl=en&taken-by=hanco...Image Details
Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com PurdyMesa, Colorado
Date: 15th 17th and 21st FEB 2018
RGB 48 x 4 min,
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Calibrated Dark and Flat Frames.
Optics: The Holloway Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Registered, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6
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