Imaging telescopes or lenses: Televue TV-76
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI 1600MM Cooled Pro
Mounts: Celestron Advanced VX
Guiding telescopes or lenses: ZWO 60mm Guidescope
Guiding cameras: ZWO ASI 290mm Mini
Focal reducers: Televue 0.8x focal reducer / field flattener
Software: PixInsight 1.8 Pisinsight 1.8
Filters: ZWO 36mm LRGBHOS Filter Set · ZWO OIII -7nm 36mm · ZWO H-alpha 36mm
Accessory: ZWO 7x 36mm Filter Wheel (EFW) · Intel NUC · Arduino ASCOM Focuser Pro2 · QHYCCD Polemaster
Dates:Jan. 22, 2020 , Jan. 23, 2020 , Jan. 24, 2020 , Jan. 25, 2020 , Jan. 27, 2020
Frames:
ZWO 36mm Blue Filter: 17x300" bin 1x1
ZWO 36mm Green Filter: 17x300" bin 1x1
ZWO 36mm Red Filter: 17x300" bin 1x1
ZWO H-alpha 36mm: 73x600" bin 1x1
Integration: 16.4 hours
Darks: ~50
Flats: ~25
Bias: ~50
Avg. Moon age: 17.51 days
Avg. Moon phase: 2.97%
Astrometry.net job: 3257237
RA center: 8h 31' 1"
DEC center: -43° 58' 13"
Pixel scale: 2.057 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -97.269 degrees
Field radius: 1.600 degrees
Resolution: 4487x3346
Locations: Backyard, Colina, Region Metropolitana, Chile
Data source: Traveller
This image shows some of the colorful stars of the southern constellation of Vela, and also a part of the Vela supernova remnant, a expanding debris cloud that was formed by the explosion of a massive star that happened 11000 years ago. At the moment of the explosion, the core of the star collapsed, forming a pulsar, while the outermost layers were ejected into the interstellar medium, producing the filaments that can be seen in this image.
This image was made adding the information captured from my backyard, using a H-Alpha Narrowband filter, to the data captured using the Red, Green and Blue Filters, from a dark site. My goal was to enhance the detail in the filaments, and also capture the colors of the stars that are present in the image.
Unfortunately, i am having some tracking issues with my mount, so i probably will need help from the local experts, to disassemble and clean my mount. I hope to capture this image again, once i solve this issues, to compare the results.
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