Austronomer76
Monoceros Widefield
There is so much more to see north of the famous Rosette Nebula: massive clouds of reddish hydrogen gas, bluish reflection nebulae, dark clouds and star clusters. The most prominent of these are the Cone Nebula, IC 446, IC 447, the Christmas Tree Cluster and Hubble's Variable Nebula.
This is a 2-panel mosaic. Although it presents a very wide field of view, it shows incredible detail in the nebulae! This astrophotography project started in early 2022 and could be completed just before March 2023. Note that the RGB exposures were made with a QHY600C OSC-camera and the narrowband images with a QHY600L mono camera.
Taken during 4 nights between January 2022 and February 2023 with a QHY600C and QHY600L on a Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 telescope, tracked with an EQ6-R, guided with MGEN-3:
75x 240sec. RGB (QHY600C)
33x 600sec. Antlia Ha 3nm Pro (QHY600L)
for each of the 2 mosaic panels.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight, StarXTerminator and Photoshop.
Monoceros Widefield
There is so much more to see north of the famous Rosette Nebula: massive clouds of reddish hydrogen gas, bluish reflection nebulae, dark clouds and star clusters. The most prominent of these are the Cone Nebula, IC 446, IC 447, the Christmas Tree Cluster and Hubble's Variable Nebula.
This is a 2-panel mosaic. Although it presents a very wide field of view, it shows incredible detail in the nebulae! This astrophotography project started in early 2022 and could be completed just before March 2023. Note that the RGB exposures were made with a QHY600C OSC-camera and the narrowband images with a QHY600L mono camera.
Taken during 4 nights between January 2022 and February 2023 with a QHY600C and QHY600L on a Skywatcher Esprit 100/550 telescope, tracked with an EQ6-R, guided with MGEN-3:
75x 240sec. RGB (QHY600C)
33x 600sec. Antlia Ha 3nm Pro (QHY600L)
for each of the 2 mosaic panels.
Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, Pixinsight, StarXTerminator and Photoshop.