NGC 6979 & NGC 6974, also known as Pickering’s Triangle and Flemings’ Triangle Wisp The above image was taken on a very windy night here in the south of the UK, so the stars are not round, but the image is not so bad that I wanted to ditch the data. The image comprises 66…
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IC 1848, also known as the Soul Nebula, is a beautiful emission nebula located in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is located about 7,500 light-years away from Earth and spans approximately 100 light-years in diameter. The Soul Nebula is part of a larger star-forming complex that includes the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) and the open cluster…
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The image above results from poor guiding with many 5-minute subs rejected; only 55 minutes of data were used to make this image. The Oiii in the nebula is hardly visible because of the lack of data. Information about the Nebula NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a stunning emission nebula in…
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IC 1340 also known as The Bat Nebula Fun Facts This is my first successful image taken with a new telescope and a dual-band filter on an OSC camera. Again I used the process from Forax, found here PixInsight : Dynamic narrowband combinations with PixelMath (thecoldestnights.com) My Process – WBPP, Alignment and Integration ForaxX#0335 –…
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If it could go wrong then it did go wrong. The above image is only 7 30-second subs because my tracking was off, the camera kept fogging up and then the clouds came in. What a night!! So I thought I would process as is and that didn’t go so well either. When I subtracted…
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IC 1848 also known as Westerhout 5 Fun Facts With this, I tried a few different things. The image is made up of 40 source lights, Also, I tried playing with the gain and offsets Below are two images, processed in a slightly different way. Please leave a comment on which you prefer.
Here is my setup which consists of the following. Home-made pier Altair Astro pier mount adapter Skywatcher EQ3 Pro mount Skywatcher StarTravel 102 Telescope SVBony 30mm Guide Scope StellaMira 2″ Field Flattener Deep Sky Dad AF3 auto focuser Baader Contrast Booster Filter Altair Astro Hypercam 183C Pro Tec QHY 5L-II Mono guide camera The cabling…
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Caldwell 9 is also known as The Cave Nebula Fun Facts Distance from Earth – 2,400 light-years away Location – found in the Cepheus Constellation What is it – Diffuse nebula Naming – Sir Patrick Moore named this the cave nebula Discovered in 1959 The image above is made up of 30 5-minute exposures and…
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NCG 281 is also known as The Pacman Nebula Fun Facts Distance from Earth – 9,200 light-years away Location – found in the Cassiopeia Constellation What is it – Bright emission nebula Size – about 48 light-years across Discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in August 1883 The image above is made up of 20 5-minute…
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First things first let’s check the quality of the light frames, as they say, rubbish in equals rubbish out. Blink Blink all the light frames and remove all the bad ones, don’t need to worry about satellites. Cosmetic Correction Set up Cosmetic Correction and enable the Auto-detect Hot Sigma and set the value to 3.…
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