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Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Christian G. » Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:29 pm

danwatt wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:49 pm Zoom into the Orion Nebula
Click to play embedded YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JkrnhTDk7w

This animation took over 5000 frames to complete, taken over a period of three months. Each frame is a 60 second exposure. Multiple focal lengths were used, from 15mm to 600mm. The images were all registered (aligned) with each other and the zoom was accomplished digitally, dissolving from one focal length into another.

With this method I did my best to emphasize the transient nature of the night sky, showing the changing airglow (green and red color casts washing through the images) and satellites passing through this region of space. The stars will even have a bit of a twinkle to them from different seeing conditions. Everything you see is real.

Additionally I created a starless background image from the same data for each focal length. The timelapse of each frame was overlaid over the starless image using the screen method so it all blended together nicely.

Image processing (calibration, registration, color correction, star extraction) was done in Pixinsight and the animations were created in DaVinci Resolve.
Nice work! Very enjoyable to watch. At the end I wished it just kept going on and on ever deeper!

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by avdhoeven » Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:18 pm

Re: IC1805 a SHO 84h image

by Aleix_Roig » Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:16 pm

Pillars of gas from the Heart nebula

https://www.astrobin.com/qeosz9/
Aleix_Roig wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:09 pm It's a pleasure to share with you my recent work on IC1805 nebula. I spent 84h 35' with my wide field setup that consists on the FRA300 refractor and ASI2600MM camera. I selected a crop that I hope it emphasizes this object beauty (attached low res).

Link to my website and image description:

https://astrocat.info/the-heart-nebula-sho-ic1805/

Link to HD view at ASTROBIN:

https://www.astrobin.com/qeosz9/


Thanks so much for watching. Best wishes,

Aleix Roig

Full image details:

The Heart nebula, catalogued as IC1805, is a large emission nebula located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy. It's located in the constellation Cassiopeia and is part of a complex star-forming region that includes the neighboring Soul Nebula (IC 1848) and the open cluster Melotte 15. It's located some 7,500 light years away from Earthand and was discovered by William Herschel on the 3rd of November 1787.

To capture this image I used my wide field setup that consists of the FRA300 telescopes and the ASI2600MM camera. I used narrow band filters to compose this color mapping also known as the Hubble Palette, where the red channel is assigned to the [SII] data, the green channel to the Ha data, and the Blue channel to the [OIII] data.

Broadband filters (R, G, B) have been used to capture the star's colors.

The full image covers an area of 4º28' x 2º58' at a resolution of 2.59"/pixel.

Image details:

[SII]: 264 x 300" (22h)

Ha: 317 x 300" (26h 25'')

[OIII]: 398 x 300" (33h10')

RGB: (60, 60, 60) x 60" (3h)


Calibrated with darks, flats, dark-flats.

Total exposure: 84h35'


Equipment:

FRA300 + ASI2600MM + LRGB ZWO filters + ZWO EFW 7 pos + ZWO EAF

ZWO AM5 mount

ASI AIR Plus

Guiding with ASI120MM and ZWO Mini Guide Scope


Aleix Roig, January 2024
Prades (Tarragona, Catalonia - Spain).

Sun Analemma from Ellicott City, MD

by GDunk49 » Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:44 pm

The Sun Analemma project is finally complete. I started the project on February 18, 2023 and completed on February 1, 2024. I used a GoPro Black 7 with a homemade solar filter mounted on a wooden bracket to take 16 images; one or two images per month. The bracket was placed on a retaining wall in approximately the same location for each image. Each image was manually taken at 1830Z +/- a few seconds.

Using Photoshop, I manually selected the bright center of Sun solar filtered images and superimposed the selection on the background image taken on January 29, 2024.

The homemade solar filter for the GoPro was made from a replacement protective lens holder. I replaced the glass lens with solar filter film.

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by mathewbrowne » Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:07 pm

Image

Llanddarog Village, United Kingdom © Mathew Browne via PhotoHound

Sunrise at Paxton's Tower, Carmarthenshire

In the summer months, if you get your timing and angles right, it's possible to photograph the sun rising right behind Paxton's Tower from the village of Llanddarog several miles away. You'll need a big telephoto lens though - this was captured at 600mm

All the photo spots I visit can be found on PhotoHound, the travel photography website I co-founded with three other photographers who document the world's best photo spots and how to shoot them. You can join for free.

Equipment and settings

Nikon Z7 II
Sigma 150-600mm lens
1/200s, ISO 320, f/8

About the photographer

I'm Mathew Browne, a photographer and web developer from south Wales, UK. I run a wedding photography and web design business but my passion is for landscape and astrophotography.

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Jean-Baptiste Auroux » Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:15 am

NGC 1365 galaxy
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/pDdXyhC ... Of1CZ1.png

NGC 1365 is a large barred spiral located 74 million light-years away in the constellation of the Furnax.
At around 200,000 light-years long, this galaxy is almost twice the size of our own Milky Way.

The data was acquired by Mike Selby, with a dream setup (1m telescope from Chile) and processed by Jean-Baptiste Auroux.

Planewave CDK 1000 – ASI 6200MM
Astrodon Filters
LRGB + Ha (37h)
Chile

Copyright: Mike Selby & Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
http://throughlightandtime.com/

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Jean-Baptiste Auroux » Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:41 am

WR 134
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/w4ZCY7b ... TZ0INm.png

For our Team's 5th image, here's our version of the well-known Wolf-Rayet 134 star, shot in HOO, with 105 hours of exposure and a high level of detail.

This is a star around 400,000 times brighter than the Sun, surrounded by a highly asymmetric 'bubble' formed by the ejection of its surface layers, which were then blown and ionised by the star's radiation and intense stellar wind.

Produced with the AstroSib 360 telescope at 2880mm focal length, this image offers high resolution and very fine detail, which we invite you to discover in the 'full' version.

The long exposure time provides a very good signal to highlight the faintest extensions in the surrounding area.


AstroSib 360 - AP 11000GTO - G4-16000 - Chroma Filters (3nm)
Ha : 270 x 600s
OIII : 360 x 600s
Total : 105h
Corsica (France)
Pixinsight & PS

Copyright: Team OURANOS (Jean-Baptiste Auroux, Jean Claude Mario, Mathieu Guinot & Matthieu Tequi).
https://team-ouranos.fr/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Team_OURANOS/

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by astrovirus » Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:15 am

So after 3 months of mostly clouds and rain, we were finally treated to a stretch of 3 fully clear nights, that even coincided with the new moon. I took this stretch of clear weather to good use and targeted the beautifull region of NGC 1333 (the Embryo Nebula), with its huge field of molecular clouds in the surroundings. This area is so much larger then the presented FOV that it basicly begs for being mosaiced in the near future.

Image was taken from January 7th to 11th and incorperates 265 frames of 5 min for a total intergration of 22 hours and 5 min (it's offcourse all in those last 5 min 😜), calibrated with 50 darks, 25 flats, and 25 darkflats.

Location: The Sting Of The Scorpion Observatory [TSO]2; Emmen, The Netherlands, Bortle 6 skies.
Telescope: Skywatcher QUATTRO150 @F/3.45
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 269C ProTec @0°C, 282 HCG, offset 150.
Filter: Optolong L-pro
Focuser: ZWO EAF
Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6
Guiding: QHY5 9x50 Finderguider
Software: N.I.N.A (EQmod/ASTAP/PHD2)
Pre- and Post-Processing: PixInsight (WBPP / starless [RC astro SxT] DBE / SPCC / RC astro BxT/NxT / GHS / SCNR / Dynamic Crop).

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by daniele.borsari » Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:44 pm

This image features a deep integration on the California Nebula, NGC 1499, an emission nebula in the constellation of Perseus.
It's located at a distance of about 1000 light years from Earth and it's visible thanks to the ionization of gases by the blue giant star ξ Persei (Menkib).

Object: California Nebula (NGC 1499)
Location: Bergamo, Italy
Light pollution: Bortle 5
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Filter: Optolong L-eNhance, Optolong UV/IR Cut
Lens: Samyang 135mm f/2.0 UMC
Star Tracker: Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
Light: L-eNhance 263 × 300″ (21h 55m), UV/IR Cut 228 × 180″ (11h 24m)
Softwares: NINA, PixInsight

ImageA Dusty California - NGC 1499 in HaOiiiRGB by Daniele Borsari, on Flickr

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by SantiRoHe » Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:17 pm

Barnard's Merope IC349, inside Merope NGC1435 in the Pleiades

It is quite a challenge for amateur to obtain Barnard's Merope Nebula as it is a very small object and very close to the star Merope, only 36 arcminutes away.

Esprit 120 at f7 (840 mm focal length)
Asi 2600MC with Optolong L-Pro filter
Sky Bortle 4
99 shots of 180 seconds each (4h 57 minutes)
A theoretical resolution of 0.92 arc seconds per pixel.
ImageImage604060fin2_colcalB4_recorte2 by Santi Rodríguez Hernández, en Flickr

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by barretosmed » Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:09 pm

MINERAL MOON

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/pd7fsz/0/

EQUIPMENT:
ZWO ASI 6200MC COLED
Esprit 150mm
Baader Lunar Filter

Date: 12/25/2023
Location: Munhoz - MG - Brazil

PROCESSING AND CAPTURE: Software: Adobe Photoshop, SharpCap, AutoStakkert AutoStackert and Registax 6.
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com
(Organizing author of the book Astrofotografia Amadora no Brasil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... l[img2]URL to image file (which must be to the image itself)[/img2]
Attachments
25_12f.jpg

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by barretosmed » Sun Jan 28, 2024 10:06 pm

The Globular Cluster Messier 19 (M19) – NGC 6273


BEST DETAILS
https://www.astrobin.com/full/lj8jqm/0/

EQUIPMENT:
Esprit 150mm triplet
Zwo asi 6200mc
Mount CEM120
Frames 109 x 100"" (taken advantage of a total of 170)

LOCATION: Munhoz - MG - Brazil
DATES: From 06/10/2023 to 06/11/2023

PROCESSING AND CAPTURE:
Adobe Photoshop, ASTAP, SGP, PHD2 and PixInsight

Author: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com
(Organizing author of the book Amateur Astrophotography in Brazil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... l[img2]URL to image file (which must be to the image itself)[/img2]
Attachments
M19.jpg

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by barretosmed » Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:33 pm

MINERAL MOON

BEST DETAILS:
https://www.astrobin.com/full/pd7fsz/0/

EQUIPMENT:
ZWO ASI 6200MC COLED
Esprit 150mm
Baader Lunar Filter

Date: 12/25/2023
Location: Munhoz - MG - Brazil


PROCESSING AND CAPTURE: Software: Adobe Photoshop, SharpCap, AutoStakkert AutoStackert and Registax 6.
Copyright: Fernando Oliveira de Menezes
Email: Barretosmed@hotmail.com
(Organizing author of the book Astrofotografia Amadora no Brasil)
https://clubedeautores.com.br/livro/ast ... l[img2]URL to image file (which must be to the image itself)[/img2]
Attachments
25_12f.jpg

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by whwiii » Sun Jan 28, 2024 6:07 pm

huge solar prominence
https://astrowhw.blogspot.com/2024/01/h ... 02024.html
Copyright: William Warden

working from home thanks to covid,
I brought my grab and go scope out at lunch and captured this huge prominence during a weekday,
at a time when no one else was lucky enough to see it.
1/10/2024 approximately 1:20 PM pacific
(full scale images at the link above)
Attachments
Sun-Ha-2024-01-10-2119_9-composite-colorized-66pct.jpg
Sun-Ha-2024-01-10-2119_9-exclusion-66pct.jpg

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by zombi » Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:56 pm

NGC 6357 / Sh2-11 / Lobster Nebula / War and Peace Nebula
Image
NGC 6357 / Sh2-11 / Lobster Nebula / War and Peace Nebula by .zombi., on Flickr

Imaging telescopes: Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII
Imaging cameras: Moravian G3-16200EC
Accessories: Reducer-QE 0.73X
Mounts: ZWO AM5
Software: N.I.N.A. · PixInsight · Adobe Photoshop

Frames:
Baader O-III 8.5nm 50 mm: 10×600″(1h 40′)
Baader S-II 8nm 50 mm: 9×600″(1h 30′)
SVBony H-alpha 7nm 2": 11×600″(1h 50′)

Photographic technique: SHO

Integration: 5h
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 1/2

Location: RPA - Blesfontein Guest Farm
Dates: April 20, 2023

Description:
Picture taken in April 2023 during an astrophotography safari in South Africa.

Image Credit & Copyright: Przemysław Ząbczyk

Links:
http://www.astrobin.com/users/zombi/
https://www.astropolis.pl/tags/zombi/

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by ashastry » Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:34 pm

Image

Further details on Astrobin:
https://www.astrobin.com/oe70lh/

About the Image:
M 78 is the lesser known nebula in the grand constellation of Orion, and is a superb target for Ha-LRGB imaging in my opinion. I thought it would be a good test for my new PlaneWave CDK14 setup, but the effects on El Nino meant capturing a lot more data than I had anticipated initially as I ended up throwing away several hours of sub-frames due to poor seeing. I do love how it eventually ended up, with particularly the red hues from hydrogen-II regions counterbalancing the blue and white reflection structures.

Instrument and Acquisition:
PlaneWave CDK14 with 0.66x Reducer
PlaneWave L-350 Mount
ZWO ASI6200MM Pro Camera
Chroma LRGB, 5nmHa Filters

~14.5 hours total: 51x300" L, 30x300" R, 34x300" G, 30x300" B, 15x600" Ha
Stacked and processing in PixInsight, Finished in Photoshop

Location and Dates:
Sierra Remote Observatories (SRO)
Auberry, CA

5 Nights: 2023-12-22, 2023-12-23, 2024-01-03, 2024-01-05, 2024-01-08

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by a.carrozzi » Sun Jan 28, 2024 5:04 pm

ImageCalifornia Nebula (NGC 1499) wide field by Alessandro Carrozzi, su Flickr

The California Nebula (NGC 1499). This is an emission nebula located about 1,000 light-years away from us in the constellation Perseus. The name comes, of course, from its resemblance to the outline of the U.S. state of California, a shape that requires a bit of creative interpretation to discern in the nebula's contours. It is among the most important emission nebulae in the boreal sky extending about 5 lunar diameters in length. Because of its extension, it is very difficult to observe through binoculars or a telescope, while it is at its best in photographic shots.Long-exposure, wide-field photography is also able to show the rich field of dark nebulae in which this object is immersed.

Technical data: Samyang 135mm f/3.6 with ZWO ASI 2600MM with Astrodon LRGB filters. 9x120s L, 3x120s R, 3x120s G, 30x120s B.

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by starsoverbucks » Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:06 pm

M35 S Asimakopoulos.jpg
Messier 35 including the star clusters NGC2158 and IC 2156-7. The photo was taken from my backyard outside of Philadelphia.

Technical Details
Telescope: Celestron RASA 8 f/2
Mount: Zwo AM5
Camera: Zwo 2600MC Pro
Filter: None
Exposure: 100 x 2min

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Jean-Baptiste Auroux » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:05 pm

Cosmic seascape in Cassiopea : Bubble, Lobster Claw & Northen Lagoon nebulae (SHO mosaic)
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/Xj-RMTr ... Of1CZ1.png

This image shows a number of beautiful nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia: the northern lagoon (NGC7538, top), the lobster claw (NGC7510, bottom) and the bubble (NGC7536, centre left).
A beautiful cosmic and aquatic environment!

There are also other smaller nebulae (SH2-158, SH2-159...), two beautiful open clusters (notably M52) and a few planetary nebulae (one of which is clearly visible at the bottom of the image).

This is a mosaic of 2 images taken during the summer of 2023, using the TSA-102 at 600mm focal length and the Atik16200 CCD, which means that the final result is a wide field without sacrificing resolution.

TSA-102 - AZEQ6 - CCD Atik16200
Filters Baader Ultra-narrowband SHO (3 et 4nm) + RGB.
Ha : 30 x 900s
OIII : 42 x 600s
SII : 42 x 600s
RGB : 3 x (24 x 60s)
Total : 22h42
11-16 august 2023 - Corsica (France)

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux
https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Jean-Baptiste Auroux » Sat Jan 27, 2024 9:02 pm

Clash of the dragons in Ara (NGC 6188)
Full version : https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/Sj5Ctlx ... Of1CZ1.png

The Rim Nebula, also known as NGC 6188 or "The Fighting Dragons of Ara" is an impressive emission nebula located about 4,000 light years away.
The bright open cluster NGC 6193 is responsible for a region of reflection nebulosity within NGC 6188.

Planewave CDK17" - FLI 16803 - 10Microns GM 3000 HPS - Filtres Astrodon SHO 3 nm
Ha : 53 x 1800s
OIII : 60 x 1800s
SII : 64 x 1800s
Total : 88h30
Processing: APP, Pixinsight & Photoshop

Copyright: Jean-Baptiste Auroux (processing) & Greg Turgeon (data acquisition)

https://millenniumphoton.com/
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Jean-Baptiste_Paris/

Dante's Inferno Horse Head

by zeppo » Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:38 am

Dante's Inferno Horse Head
https://www.instagram.com/astrozeppo
Copyright: Alessandro Zepponi This is image is the result of about 4 hours of integration (15x300s Ha, 15x300s Sii, 20x300s Oiii) from a Bortle 7 sky of a little town just outside Varese, in the North of Italy that is one of the worst light polluted region in Europe! :(

Equipment used:
Artesky 90/500 refractor
Zwo ASI2600MM
Avalon M-Zero mount
Astronomik 6nm Narrow Band filters

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Richard Rice » Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:30 pm

Jellyfish Nebula - SH 2 248 - IC443
Copyright: Richard Rice
https://www.astrobin.com/iq73n0/ Imaging Telescope: William Optics Fluorostar 120 / FLT120
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Mounts: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Filters: Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 36 mm · Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 36 mm · Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 36 mm

This image is entirely created from 300sec sub-exposures captured on the 9th, 10th, 18th and 19th of January 2024.

Frames:
Antlia 3nm Narrowband H-alpha 36 mm: 131×300″(10h 55′)
Antlia 3nm Narrowband Oxygen III 36 mm: 49×300″(4h 5′)
Antlia 3nm Narrowband Sulfur II 36 mm: 123×300″(10h 15′)
Integration: 25h 15′

Avg. Moon age: 18.06 days
Avg. Moon phase: 31.20%
RA center: 06h19m02s.71
DEC center: +22°38′11″.4
Pixel scale: 1.245 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: -35.140 degrees
Field radius: 1.284 degrees

This Nebula fascinates me. There is so much going on, not only in the main body of the Supernova Remnant which houses the Neutron Star, but also in the structures to the left of the image. Are they part of the Supernova Remnant, created at the same time? Or are they an independent structure created by other forces at a different time. If so, do they interact with the Supernova Remnant now? Are they even close to each other or just on the same line of sight?

Veil Nebula, Cygnus Loop

by astrocam » Fri Jan 26, 2024 10:45 am

Image
Equipment
Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED
Imaging Cameras: Omegon veTEC 571 C
Mounts: Losmandy G11
Filters: Optolong L-eXtreme 2"
Accessories: Explore Scientific Telescope Drive Master (TDM), TS-Optics NEWTON Coma Corrector 1.0x (TSGPU)

Dates:
27-29 Jul 2023, 21-23-24 Aug 2023
Frames: Optolong L-eXtreme 2": 166×300″(13h 50′) for each panel

Camerino (MC), Italy

One of the most intense phenomena that can occur in the universe is the explosion of a supernova. It can happen in two ways. The first is when a massive star runs out of "fuel" and begins to collapse on itself due to gravity. The second is when a "white dwarf" accumulates material from a "companion star" and reaches critical mass. In both cases the collapse ends with a huge explosion which totally disintegrates the initial object now made up of degenerate matter. The outer layers of the star are ejected at thousands of kilometers per second, creating a cloud of gas and dust in the interstellar medium. The "diffuse supernova remnant" is born.
The veil nebula is therefore what remains of a supernova that exploded thousands of years ago, creating three groups of waves of diffuse material that are now enormous and destined to disappear in the interstellar medium, three "veils" of gas and dust that describe a ring of about 50 light years in diameter. The main objects that we can observe today are NGC 6960, NGC 6974 and NGC 6979 with the concavities facing east, NGC 6992 and NGC 6995 with the concavities facing west.

Copyright: Corrado Gamberoni
https://flic.kr/p/2pur4fj

https://astrob.in/p07xht/0/

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Rafeee » Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:36 am

HUMANITY
2024_01_25_holdpan_m_2048px.jpg
Copyright: Rafael Schmall
https://www.astrobin.com/users/Rafeee/

I have been waiting for this transit for days. In terms of apparent diameter, it is not perfect, because the ISS was about 750 km away, i.e. the apparent diameter was 38". In an ideal situation, the maximum is around 61" from Hungary. therefore, the day before the photoshoot there would have been a 52", but it was too difficult in the terrain, too far away.

The composition was inspired by the idea that there are a couple of people out in outer space with a space station, and with that they represent almost all of humanity's sciences. It was a grandiose experience to see in articles how the space station was built, to see how they work and the traffic there... and it's all there in the evening, sometimes as a bright "star" in the sky, sometimes in front of some celestial body and we know it from a cake plate to take a photo with carved glass :).

Image Details:
Equipment: ZWO ASI290MM, JURA 194/1450, SkyWatcher EQ5GT
Exif data: exp: 1,5ms, gain:110, 11x1000frame 10%
Processing: Firecapture, PIPP, Autostakkert3, Photoshop

Location: Hungary, Zselic Starry Sky Park, Zselic Park of Stars

Re: Submissions: 2024 January

by Groovynight » Thu Jan 25, 2024 4:11 pm

IC 2169 / IC447 in Monoceros

Image
(Thumb only)

>>>High Resolution: https://astrophoto-hannover.de/download ... s_Horn.jpg

In the constellation Monoceros, west of the Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster IC 2169 / IC447 can be found, a true gem of a reflection nebula. Next to IC447, the smaller reflection nebulae IC 446, NGC 2245 & 2247 can also be seen. The entire region belongs to the "Monoceros R1 Complex" (Mon R1), an active star-forming region located approximately 2,500 light-years away. On the left side of the image, the star cluster NGC 2259 and some LDNs and LBNs are also present.
The image is based on 12.5 hours of RGB. To better balance the colors in the image, I enriched the area of the gas nebula with a bit of Ha and OIII signal. In doing so, I was able to use data from my capture of the Christmas Tree Cluster from last year, which fortunately overlapped exactly in this area.


Celestron RASA 8
Celestron Motorfocuser
EQ6-R Pro
ZWO ASI 2600 MC Pro (Gain 100, Offset 18, -10°)
RGB: 731 x 60" (12h 11')
TS 2600 MP Mono (Gain 100, Offset 200, -10°)
Ha (Baader f2 3.5nm): 200 × 60″ (3h 20′)
OIII (Baader f2 4 nm): 130 × 120″ (4h 20′)
Total: 19h 51‘
Darks, Flats, Darkflats, Dithering
N.I.N.A., Guiding: ZWO ASI 120MM & PHD2
Astropixelprocessor, Photoshop, Pixinsight

Date: January 8 & 9, 2024, January 19, 2023, January 17, 2022

Location: Hannover, Germany (Bortle 5-6)

Contact:
Website: www.astrophoto-hannover.de
Instagram: @astrophoto_hannover
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/users/Groovynight/
E-Mail: info@astrophoto-hannover.de

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