Captured last week from grandmesaobservatory.com using the new QHY367C one shot color CMOS camera on Walter's Takahashi FSQ-130, this is 60 x 60 second exposures for a total integration time of 1 hour.
Compare this to my image using a QHY11 Full Frame Mono CCD for a total integration time of 12.5 hours
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/9490050953/in/album-72...and For comparisons of earlier work on this using CCD
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/albums/72157645635013770The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus that resembles the shape of North America and The Gulf Of Mexico. It lies at a distance of approximately 1800 light years away from us.
It contains some very interesting areas such as The Cygnus Wall which is representative of Mexico and Central America and the nearby Pelican Nebula (IC5070) which is not usually referred to as within The American Nebula however it is part of the same cloud of ionized Hydrogen.
Technical Information
Location: Grand Mesa, Whitewater Colorado
Captured May 28 2017
QHY367C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C
Size: 7376 x 4938 pixels
Pixel Size: 4.88um x 4.88um
Total integration Time 60 minutes
Gain 2850, Offset 76
Darks and Flats no Bias
60 x 60 sec @ 1x1
Optics: Takahashi FSQ-130 @ F5.0 650mm
Optolong Luminance Filter for IR Block
Paramount ME German Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition Maxim DL
Pre Processing Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processing Pixinsight & CS6
Please check out the new observatory on Grand Mesa, Colorado
www.grandmesaobservatory.com
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