SH2-132 The Lion Nebula (Yungshih Lee)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: B369 · HD211430 · HD211564 · HD211643 · HD211774 · HD211820 · HD211853 · HD211982 · HD212183 · HD212312 · HD212455 · HD235775 · HD235793 · HD235807 · HD235809 · HD235810 · HD239919 · HD239928 · HD239929 · HD239933 · LBN 471 · LBN 473 · LDN 1150 · LDN 1154 · LDN 1156 · LDN 1161 · LDN 1163 · RW Cep · Sh2-132

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SH2-132 The Lion Nebula

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SH2-132 The Lion Nebula

First light of my new scope! The William Optics FLT 132 is such a beautiful piece of art itself, but the image it can capture really blows me away. I got the scope two days ago (from William Yang himself, by the way), and could not wait to bring it out for testing. It was nearly full moon (96%) last night and a bit windy, but that was no excuse for not going out to shoot the stars. Yesterday was also the World Lion Day, so the Lion Nebula, or SH2-132, is a fitting target for the new FLT 132.

I was absolutely amazed by the tight stars, crispy images, fine details, and vivid colors it brings out. Even under the full moon with only 2 hours 20 minutes of exposure, it shows more subtle details that I could not capture with any of my other scopes. I think I am going to have a lot of fun with this scope.

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Description: About two more hours of data have been added to the image. As the imaging session didn't go exactly as planned I acquired mostly H alpha signals and some OIII. The channel imbalance may have affected the color balance even though I tried to correct it in post-processing. With the new data, the outline of the nebula is better defined, but I like the original version's color better. Anyways, this is still a work in progress. Will see how it goes when more OIII and SII data is added in. I also made the stars smaller.

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Description: Removed magenta and added back some red and blue.

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RA (center)	22h18m55s.18
RA (top/left)	22h14m35s.85
RA (top/right)	22h14m36s.77
RA (bottom/right)	22h23m03s.20
RA (bottom/left)	22h23m26s.50

Dec (center)	+55°46′13″.7
Dec (top/left)	+56°40′48″.7
Dec (top/right)	+54°51′57″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+54°51′04″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°39′42″.3

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