Flying Bat Nebula (SH2-129) and Giant Squid Nebula (OU4) - 2024-07-14 - HOO Palette
The Flying Bat is the orange-ish (Hydrogen alpha) semicircle, and the Giant Squid is the blue (O-III) cylindrical object. The Bat was bright, and therefore easier to capture and process. The Squid, however, is just barely brighter than the Bortle 7 sky in my backyard, and was much more difficult to process. The stars were captured separately in RGB.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 7 x 2" (Ha, O-III and RGB)
Tele Vue Nagler-Petzval (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Processed in PixInsight. Narrowband images mixed with NarrowbandNormalization.
Ha: 9 x 600s, 1:30 integration time
OIII: 65 x 600s, 10:50 integration time
RGB: 12 x 60s per channel, 0:36 integration time
Total integration time: 14:26
Flying Bat Nebula (SH2-129) and Giant Squid Nebula (OU4) - 2024-07-14 - HOO Palette
The Flying Bat is the orange-ish (Hydrogen alpha) semicircle, and the Giant Squid is the blue (O-III) cylindrical object. The Bat was bright, and therefore easier to capture and process. The Squid, however, is just barely brighter than the Bortle 7 sky in my backyard, and was much more difficult to process. The stars were captured separately in RGB.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/EFW 7 x 2" (Ha, O-III and RGB)
Tele Vue Nagler-Petzval (4" f/4.3)
Losmandy G11
Processed in PixInsight. Narrowband images mixed with NarrowbandNormalization.
Ha: 9 x 600s, 1:30 integration time
OIII: 65 x 600s, 10:50 integration time
RGB: 12 x 60s per channel, 0:36 integration time
Total integration time: 14:26