North America and Pelican Nebula SHO

2025-07-03 Harney, MD

2025-08-09 Germantown,MD

 

This was is an image created from two sessions a month apart, at different locations, with different telescopes: A Vixen ED80SF (July HaOiii) and a Tele Vue NP101is(August, SiiOiii). This was first light on the Tele Vue NP101is. Since they had different resolutions I had to go to astronometry.net to get the proper orientation and the center coordinates from the July HaOiii image. I plugged these coordinates into NINAs target instruction set for the SiiOiii image in August. In Pixinsight I used Star Alignment to do final alignment between the images out of WBPP before processing through Pixinsight.

 

Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC

Guide Camera: QHY5III462

Telescopes: Vixen ED80SF f/7.5

Tele Vue NP101is f/5.4

Mount Losmandy G11

Integration:

HaOiii 21x900s=315m/5.25 hrs

SiiOiii 39x510s=19,890s/331.5m/5.5hrs

Filters:

Optolong Ultima 3nm Dual HaOiii;

Altair 4nm Dual SiiOiii

Capture: NINA

Processing: Pixinsight, Affinity

 

Done