Pac Man

My image from last night was the Pac Man nebula. This is definitely my best Pac Man to date! The larger scope just delivers much better detail!!! This is an SHO image with RGB stars!

 

Equipment used:

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Custom built 6" 152mm APM F8 doublet lens cell reduced to F4.8 using 0.6 starwave reducer corrector with GSO 2.5" focuser in CR6 tube/ Apochromatic Refractor

 

ZWO ASI air used for Acquisition

 

ZWOasi071 MC Pro Camera

 

Evoguide 50mm guidscope

 

ZWOasi 290 guide camera

 

EQ6-R Pro Mount

 

 

 

Image data information:

 

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William Optics Ultra Layer SCT Filter

 

120x30s exposures = 1hrs

 

chroma 3nm HA 12x 600s

3nm Olll 12x600s

3nm Sll 12x600s

 

7 hrs total acquisition time.

 

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Master Light, Dark and Bias Frames used for image calibration.

 

Processing information

 

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Stacking and Pre Processing done in Pixinsight

Final processing done in Photoshop

Done