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Click the image for a ~ 54%
size view. (1800 x 1350 - 1.27 MB)
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Instrument |
Takahashi FSQ-106ED @
f/5.0 (530 mm F.L.) Captured at 2.1 arcsec/pixel. Shown at
3.91 and 9.38 arcsec/pixel. |
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Mount |
Paramount MyT |
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Camera |
SBIG STF-8300M Self
Guiding Package w/ mono ST-i, using AstroDon 5nm SII,
Ha and a 3mn OIII filter. |
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Acquisition Data |
9/9/2016 to 10/7/2016
Chino Valley, AZ with CCD Commander & CCDSoft. |
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Exposure |
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SII |
435 min. (29
x 15 min.) binned 1x1 |
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Ha |
525 min. (35
x 15 min.) " |
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OIII |
390 min. (26
x 15 min.) " |
Click
here for the RGB image
Click
here for the b/w Ha image |
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Software |
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CCDSoft,
PixInsight & Photoshop CS6.
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PixInsight
processing includes calibration, registering, stacking, gradient
removal, non-linear stretching with HistogramTransformation .
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PhotoShop for
RGB creation & final touch up.
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Noiseware 5, a
PhotoShop plug-in.
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Comment |
North is to the
top.
Sh2-132 is an extended
emission nebula, at a distance of about 10,365 light-years, in the
constellation Cepheus. |
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