Messier 3

Equipment

 

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses

Meade Starfinder 8 f/6 Newtonian OTA

Imaging Cameras

QHYCCD QHY163M

Mounts

Losmandy GM8 / GM8G

Filters

Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2" · Meade Blue 2" · Meade Green 2" · Meade Red 2"

Accessories

Baader 2" MPCC Mark III Newton Coma Corrector (2458400A)

Software

Adobe Photoshop · Aries Productions Astro Pixel Processor (APP) · Open PHD Guiding Project PHD2 · Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)

 

Acquisition details

 

Dates:

March 27, 2021 · April 4, 2023

Frames:

Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 173×120″(5h 46′)

Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 20×15″(5′)

Baader Neodymium Moon & Skyglow 2": 130×60″(2h 10′)

Meade Blue 2": 40×60″(40′)

Meade Green 2": 40×60″(40′)

Meade Red 2": 40×60″(40′)

Integration:

10h 1′

Avg. Moon age:

13.22 days

Avg. Moon phase:

97.33%

 

Basic astrometry details

 

Astrometry.net job: 7480082

 

RA center: 13h42m09s.1

 

DEC center: +28°25′04″

 

Pixel scale: 0.640 arcsec/pixel

 

Orientation: 195.622 degrees

 

Field radius: 0.510 degrees

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Resolution: 4578x3454

 

File size: 11.3 MB

 

Data source: Backyard

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