NGC 1514 imaged with a Maksutov and a planetary camera in LRGB (Walter Leonhard Schramböck)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: NGC 1514 · PK165-15.1

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NGC 1514 imaged with a Maksutov and a planetary camera in LRGB

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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NGC 1514 imaged with a Maksutov and a planetary camera in LRGB

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

After searching and experimenting for a long time to find a Reducer that fits my Skywatcher Skymax 180, here is where I am now with this project.
The TS-Optics CCD47 is designed for corrected RC-telescopes, but I found out that it also does a good job on my Mak.
At the moment I only have the ASI432MM lunar/solar camera that has really large pixels on it's seonsor (9x9µm) so that oversampling (and resulting blur) does not happen. This sensor is very sensitive, what is really necessary on a Maksutov.
All the sessions I did unguided with short subs of 30s, because the guidescope has a short FL, resulting in unusable guiding. But the AM5 did a fairly good job without guiding so far.
At GAIN 350 this sensor shows a uniform background-noise, below that stripes appear. I do not know if this is related to missing cooling or something else.
This image was no fun to process because of the high noiselevels on the subs, the high mumber of light/flat/dark/bias images (far beyond 1000 in total) and this is what I could pull out of the data.

But I am not finished yet in abusing my Mak. ;-)

NGC 1514, the Crystal Ball Nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Taurus. Wilhelm Herschel discovered it in 1790, the nebula originated from a binary star system, observations of the system over years showed that their orbit is actually one of the longest known for any planetary nebula, with a period of about 9 years.

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RA (center)	04h09m15s.645
RA (top/left)	04h08m36s.381
RA (top/right)	04h08m35s.410
RA (bottom/right)	04h09m54s.734
RA (bottom/left)	04h09m56s.500

Dec (center)	+30°46′45″.11
Dec (top/left)	+30°58′06″.60
Dec (top/right)	+30°35′34″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	+30°35′22″.87
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°57′55″.88

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