A very large nebula with central star cluster. It is located ~5,200 LY away in the constallation Moncoeros. It spans ~80' and so is nearly three times the size of the full moon Imaged at Perth Observatory site. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 13 Images ISO 800 300 Sec, 33 DARK @120sec, 70 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Telescope - Bintel BT200 f/4.0 Newtonian (borrowed from Stephen Boyd) with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector, Hutech LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 64' x 95', Ambient 24C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount countrol. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress Superstar (mono) CCD guide camera and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
A very large nebula with central star cluster. It is located ~5,200 LY away in the constallation Moncoeros. It spans ~80' and so is nearly three times the size of the full moon Imaged from Perth Observatory site. Unfortunately a gusty easterly wind came up and the session had to be cut short, so I collected far less light than necessary for this faint object. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 85% of 7 Images ISO 800 300 Sec, 16 DARK at 90Sec, 32 BIAS, 0 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Telescope - Bintel BT200 f/4.0 Newtonian (borrowed from Stephen Boyd) with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector, Hutech LPS-P2 filter, Canon 400D DSLR field 64' x 95', Ambient 28-27C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount countrol. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress Superstar (mono) CCD guide camera and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
Asteroid motion is from right to left. Each trail is of 2 minutes duration. It travels between the Gum 38a and 38b nebulae. DeepSkyStacker 3.3.2 Stacked 100% of 3 Images ISO 800 120 Sec, 0 DARK, 75 BIAS, 20 FLATS, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Telescope - Apogee OrthoStar LOMO 80/480 with Hotech SCA Field Flattener, Hutech IDAS LPS-P2 filter, Canon 40D DSLR field 106' x 159' , Ambient 21C. EQMOD EQASCOM with Ascom 6 for mount countrol. Backyard EOS 2.09 for Image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Star Shoot Auto Guider and Stark Labs PHD auto guiding software.
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