Soul Nebula Deep View ( felixwegerer )

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Soul Nebula Deep View

Link: https://www.instagram.com/felix_wegerer/

Imaging telescope or lens:APM LZOS 203/1800 APO

Imaging camera:SBIG STXL-11002/FW8G-STXL

Guiding camera:SBIG STXL-11002/FW8G-STXL

Focal reducer:APM Riccardi 0.75x reducer/flattener

Software:Adobe Lighroom , PHD 2 , SGPro Sequence Generator Pro , Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight 1.8.6 Ripley

Filters:Baader S2 8.5nm , Baader O3 8nm , Baader HAlpha 7nm

Dates:Jan. 10, 2020

Frames:
Baader HAlpha 7nm: 82x600" -20C bin 1x1
Baader O3 8nm: 55x600" -20C bin 1x1
Baader S2 8.5nm: 37x600" -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 29.0 hours

Avg. Moon age: 14.43 days

Avg. Moon phase: 99.87%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6.00

Basic astrometry details

Astrometry.net job: 3361282

RA center: 2h 55' 5"

DEC center: +60° 19' 37"

Pixel scale: 1.337 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 0.275 degrees

Field radius: 1.132 degrees

Resolution: 4804x3755

Data source: Backyard

2 panel mosaic of the Soul Nebula
Panel 1:
53x10min Halpha
30x10min O3
27x10min S2
Panel 2:
29x10min Halpha
25x10min O3
10 x10min S2 [ :-( ]

Calibrated and registered in Pixinsight, DBE and Stretch of all 6 images, match brightness, combine both panels per channel in ICE.
Create starless images for tonemapping.
Create luminance from Ha and Ha starless, process luminance and tonemap and L RGB combine.
Last tweaks in Lightroom.