The Astro-Imaging LAB
My 2nd Close Up of the SMC
Another close up image of another region in the Small Magellanic Cloud... an ongoing imaging mission that I planned with my wide field image of the SMC from about two months ago.
This frame contains NGC248, NGC249, NGC261 and NGC267.
Not the best quality as the sky was plagued by thin and high altitude cloud haze that blurred the signal and shortened the possible amount of time to expose subs.
This bi-color image was exposed through a Celestron C8 at f6.3 (1280mm focal length) with a QHY268M camera and the 2 channels were integrated through Baader 7nm H-Alpha and OIII filters.
Total integration time for this image was short, interrupted by high altitude clouds and I managed only 3 hours and 30 minutes of exposure time.
My 2nd Close Up of the SMC
Another close up image of another region in the Small Magellanic Cloud... an ongoing imaging mission that I planned with my wide field image of the SMC from about two months ago.
This frame contains NGC248, NGC249, NGC261 and NGC267.
Not the best quality as the sky was plagued by thin and high altitude cloud haze that blurred the signal and shortened the possible amount of time to expose subs.
This bi-color image was exposed through a Celestron C8 at f6.3 (1280mm focal length) with a QHY268M camera and the 2 channels were integrated through Baader 7nm H-Alpha and OIII filters.
Total integration time for this image was short, interrupted by high altitude clouds and I managed only 3 hours and 30 minutes of exposure time.