Colorful Starbirth Region NGC 1333 - short exposures again (Nauris.de)

Colorful Starbirth Region NGC 1333 - short exposures again

This region of the winter Milky-Way was very high on top of my "new gear wish-list" for more than one reason.

In the first place, this is just a beautiful target. I simply love these colors from blue over orange to red and even brownish dark-clouds. And it does provide a lot of interesting details - it is an active region where star birth does take place right now. The fan-shaped nebula BTW is variable and therefore in some way the small version of Hubbles variable nebula - could be worth a second visit after some while.

Another reason was that I tried this target some years ago with <600mm FL and now I wanted to understand the gain of more light-gathering power and much better resolution of 1500mm FL @f/3.8.

And last reason was to understand if my approach to only use 10sec subs combined with high Gain (400) is getting me into trouble when it comes to faint targets (which this region does provide without doubt, it is much tougher to process tha the Horsehead (B33)). Since I think that for an interesting result resolution is more important than depth (when talking about imaging with larger scopes) my idea is to keep sub-length as low as possible. This is to keep the chance to get best possible resolution under my given seeing conditions (which are "ok" but for sure far from being really good).

My conclusion of the last point is that it worked, depth does not seem to suffer and theory is right - with 10sec I already am background limited thanks to the fast focal-ratio. This especially seems to apply approved since half of the used subs were affected by high clouds again.

SQM-L: 18.4-20.9mag/arcsec^2

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