Imaging telescopes or lenses: Stellarvue SVT 130T
Imaging cameras: SBIG STT 8300M
Mounts: Astro-Physics Mach1AP GTO CP4
Guiding telescopes or lenses: Stellarvue SVT 130T
Guiding cameras: SBIG STT 8300M
Software: Software Bisque TheSky X Professional · photoshop · Starnet ++ · CCDWare FocusMax V.4 · PixInsight · Straton Destar 2.0 · Topaz Denoise AI · 3D LUT Creator · Maxim DL · EQMOD · DC-3 Dreams ACP Observatory Control Software · Astro-Physics Command Center (APCC) Software · Annie's Astro Actions Version 7.0
Filters: Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Generation 2 · Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 · AstroDon 5nm Ha filter
Accessory: Moonlite Nitecrawler 3.5 · Tolga Astro Alnitak Flat-Man Electroluminescent Flat Fielding Device
Dates:March 4, 2021
Frames:
Astrodon Blue Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 5x240"
Astrodon Green Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2: 4x240"
Astrodon H-alpha 5nm: 3x1800"
Astrodon Red Tru-Balance E-Series Generation 2: 4x240"
Integration: 2.4 hours
Avg. Moon age: 20.45 days
Avg. Moon phase: 67.63%
Astrometry.net job: 4275829
RA center: 16h 23' 17"
DEC center: -31° 44' 59"
Pixel scale: 1.224 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 178.224 degrees
Field radius: 0.120 degrees
Resolution: 500x500
Locations: Stanford Faculty Observatory (Bortle 6 SQM 18.6), Stanford, California, United States
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
Finally I have an Abell posted that nobody else has imaged on Astrobin. This one is very low and very hard to get. I found one other high resolution image of it on the web but no information except that HA is the filter to use:
GENERAL NOTE ON ABELL (and other) PLANETARY NEBULA>>>>>>>>>>>>>
From Wikipedia:
The Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae was created in 1966 by George O. Abell and was composed of 86 entries thought to be planetary nebulae that were collected from discoveries, about half by Albert George Wilson and the rest by Abell, Robert George Harrington, and Rudolph Minkowski. All were discovered before August 1955 as part of the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey on photographic plates created with the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin telescope at Mount Palomar. Four were later rejected as not being planetaries: Abell 11 (reflection nebula), Abell 32 (red plate flaw), Abell 76 (ring galaxy PGC 85185), and Abell 85 (supernova remnant CTB 1 and noted as possibly such in Abell's 1966 paper). Another three were also not included in the Strasbourg-ESO Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae (SEC): Abell 9, Abell 17 (red plate flaw), and Abell 64. Planetaries on the list are best viewed with a large aperture telescope (e.g. 18-inch (0.46 m)) and an OIII filter.
It turns out to my surprise most of these are visible with my Stellarvue 130mm (5-inch) SVX.
Bottom line there are 79 imagable Abell Nebula of which I have imaged 50 (half-way point Feb 6 2021).
This is my collection:
These are sorted by number and behind the Abell's are other miscellaneous PNs that I have imaged... I have a list of the 100 brightest.
These are some useful Abell relevant sites:
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