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Seagull Sighting Over Grand Mesa Observatory, Terry Hancock

Seagull Sighting Over Grand Mesa Observatory

Seagull Sighting Over Grand Mesa Observatory, Terry Hancock

Seagull Sighting Over Grand Mesa Observatory

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Almost 800 miles from the closest beaches in California, the Seagull was captured using Grand Mesa Observatory’s TAK E180 (soon to be live system 4) with a QHY128C Full Frame CMOS camera, I was very impressed with not having to do any noise reduction other than during calibration when the data was pre processed using Pixinsight. Tom Masterson did the acquisition and Terry Hancock did the processing.

Total Acquisition time 6 hours

HII region and stellar nursery forming the head and wings of a Seagull lying on the border of Monoceros and Canis Major at a distance of 3,800 Light Years

Image capture details

Credit: Terry Hancock, Tom Masterson and Grand Mesa Observatory

Captured on the 1st FEB

Color 360 min 36x 600 sec

Camera: QHY128C @ -20C

Offset 60, Gain 2200 Calibrated with flat, dark & bias

Optics: System 4, Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processed in Pixinsight

Post Processed in Photoshop

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Seagull Sighting Over Grand Mesa Observatory, Terry Hancock