The Astro-Imaging LAB
Barnard 33 - HAlpha
One of the most popular object for astroimagers... The Horsehead Nebula/Barnard 33 with Alnitak and the Flame Nebula.
As I continue to have terrible sky conditions for astroimaging, I'm struggling to complete any images before the imaged object season is finished. Seems like my nights are perpetually cloud covered.
I'm keeping an eye on the sky, and when I spot some clarity, I immediately open the observatory and start to gather photons.
I captured this image by noticing that there was a clear window of opportunity and managed to have a couple of hours of clarity before clouds returned.
I captured another hour worth of exposed H-alpha subs which smoothed out some noise in the shadows but I also would like to capture other color channels and create a color photo... but with the weather being against me, I'm running out of time.
This images total exposure time was 2 hour and 30 minutes, consisting of 15 x 600 second 7nm narrowband H-Alpha subs.
Taken through a 80mm Refractor @ f6.25, on a hypertuned CGEM mount with QHY268M camera.
Barnard 33 - HAlpha
One of the most popular object for astroimagers... The Horsehead Nebula/Barnard 33 with Alnitak and the Flame Nebula.
As I continue to have terrible sky conditions for astroimaging, I'm struggling to complete any images before the imaged object season is finished. Seems like my nights are perpetually cloud covered.
I'm keeping an eye on the sky, and when I spot some clarity, I immediately open the observatory and start to gather photons.
I captured this image by noticing that there was a clear window of opportunity and managed to have a couple of hours of clarity before clouds returned.
I captured another hour worth of exposed H-alpha subs which smoothed out some noise in the shadows but I also would like to capture other color channels and create a color photo... but with the weather being against me, I'm running out of time.
This images total exposure time was 2 hour and 30 minutes, consisting of 15 x 600 second 7nm narrowband H-Alpha subs.
Taken through a 80mm Refractor @ f6.25, on a hypertuned CGEM mount with QHY268M camera.