Rho Ophiuchi Nebula 5 panel Mosaic (James R Potts)

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Rho Ophiuchi Nebula 5 panel Mosaic

Revision title: Revised Rho

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This has been a labor of love and patience as I started this back on April 26th, almost 2 full months. This is a beautiful, but extremely challenging area to capture. The Rho complex is a fairly faint set of reflection nebulas, it does not get very high in the sky and I only had around 4 to 5 hours of good imaging time each night. Since it is a reflection nebula, I restricted my imaging sessions to clear mostly moonless nights, otherwise the images got very washed out. This was captured over 6 nights and consist of 5 separate panels that were combined in APP. I am pretty happy how this turn out, hope you enjoy it also.

The Rho complex is around 540 light years away making it one of the closest star-forming regions. There are also several other targets in this image including a couple of globular clusters, most notably M4.

FYI, This new equipment log is a pain to use and I may just quit using it. Also adding the acquisition details is going to be hard, if you just want to say I used a RGB set.

Anyway here are my capture details:
4/26/22 - 46 120 second RGB subs
4/30/22 - 97 120 second HaLRGB subs
5/06/22 - 106 120 second LRGB subs
5/26/22 - 80 120 second LRGB subs
6/22/22 - 117 120 second HaLRGB subs
6/24/22 - 83 120 second HaLRGB subs
Total 17.63 hours of total intragation time

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Title: Revised Rho

Description: Processed this a little different in APP, adjusted the sliders some. It is not as bright, but overall I think this version looks a little better, at least it does to me.

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RA (center)	16h27m13s.62
RA (top/left)	16h20m28s.17
RA (top/right)	16h18m15s.62
RA (bottom/right)	16h34m16s.30
RA (bottom/left)	16h35m51s.25

Dec (center)	-25°14′44″.3
Dec (top/left)	-22°46′54″.1
Dec (top/right)	-27°21′02″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	-27°41′04″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	-23°07′10″.0

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