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Initial attempt - about 90 minutes' worth of 10s subs in Bortle 5/6 skies - in need of a few more hours to bring out more detail/less noise.
Image of the Wizard Nebula (NGC7380), about 8500 light years away, in constellation Cepheus. Taken with an Orion EON 130mm triplet (without its field flattener), using a QHY168C 14-bit color camera, and combined images through UVIR (clear RGB color), Halpha (used as a luminance mask), OptoLong L-extreme (Halpha+O3), and Televue Nebustar (O3+Hbeta) 48mm diameter filters. This is a combined group of many 300 sec images from backyard Sunnyvale California location. Images stacked in PixInSight, then denoised and combined in Affinity Photo program. Scope was mounted on a Losmandy G11 mount, and using a Celestron 80mm piggyback scope with ASI178MM video camera and PHD2 for autoguiding. Imaged Oct 4, 2022, processed Sept 19 2024.
Image of the Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380, is a young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus.
La nébuleuse du sorcier
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Gear - Matériel ðŸ”
Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
Scope : TS Optics 94 EDPH
Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on ZWO OAG
Imaging camera : ZWO ASI071MC Pro
Filters : Optolong L-extreme
Picture - Prise de vue 📷
Total integration : 4h10
Light : 50 x 300s
Dark : 30
Flat : 20
Gain : 90
Sensor temp : 0°C
Software - Logiciels
Imaging session : Nina
Guiding : PHD2
Stacking : PixInsight
Processing : PixInsight, Photoshop
SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard
BITPIX = -32 / number of bits per data pixel
NAXIS = 3 / number of data axes
NAXIS1 = 3008 / length of data axis 1
NAXIS2 = 3008 / length of data axis 2
NAXIS3 = 3 / length of data axis 3
EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions
COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'Astronomy
COMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H
BZERO = 0 / offset data range to that of unsigned short
BSCALE = 1 / default scaling factor
DATE = '2023-08-20T15:17:22' / UTC date that FITS file was created
DATE-OBS= '2023-08-19T20:19:11.674369' / YYYY-MM-DDThh🇲🇲ss observation start,
INSTRUME= 'ZWO ASI533MC Pro' / instrument name
OBSERVER= ' ' / observer name
TELESCOP= 'EQMod Mount' / telescope used to acquire this image
XPIXSZ = 3.76 / X pixel size microns
YPIXSZ = 3.76 / Y pixel size microns
XBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
YBINNING= 1 / Camera binning mode
FOCALLEN= 434 / Camera focal length
CCD-TEMP= -13.5 / CCD temp in C
EXPTIME = 60 / Exposure time [s]
STACKCNT= 608 / Stack frames
LIVETIME= 36480 / Exposure time after deadtime correction
EXPSTART= 2.46018e+06 / Exposure start time (standard Julian date)
EXPEND = 2.46018e+06 / Exposure end time (standard Julian date)
FILTER = 'mixed_Starless' / Active filter name
IMAGETYP= 'Light ' / Type of image
CVF = 0.994093 / Conversion factor (e-/adu)
GAIN = 101 / Camera gain
OFFSET = 70 / Camera offset
RA = 342.02 / Image center Right Ascension (deg)
DEC =
Last night I captured another 58 narrowband (Ha/OIII) images of 300 seconds each and 19 RBG images (also at 300 seconds each). This morning I combined those with the 64 narrowband (Ha/OIII) images I captured the previous night.
I tweaked the processing to pull out the OIII separate from the Ha channel. I really like the colors of this image and I'm hoping with more data I can pull out more of the faint nebulosity in the lower right hand side of the image. The forecast is for another clear night tonight so I think I'll be adding more imaging time to my Wizard Nebula project.
This image was created with a total of 19 300 second RBG images and 122 300 second narrowband images for a total of 11.75 hrs imaging time.
All images were taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED telescope and a QHY-268C OSC.
Stacking and image processing with Siril, GraXpert, and Adobe Photoshop.
I've had the opportunity over the past few nights to capture a few hours of the Wizard Nebula with an S2/O3 filter. I've combined that with all the Ha/O3 data I had captured earlier in the summer and married that up with a set of RGB data for the stars. Here is the resultant image.
I definitely could use more S2 integration time but I really like the gradient of colors across the nebula. This is a true Hubble pallet image of the Wizard Nebula with S2 mapped to red, O3 to blue and Ha to green. There is a total of 16.25, hours of Ha, 20.5 hrs of O3, and 4.3 hrs of S2. Over time I'll try and balance our the S2 and Ha data and reprocess the image.
All images were taken with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 100ED telescope and a QHY-268C OSC.
Stacking and image processing with Siril, GraXpert, and Adobe Photoshop with final tweaks in Lightroom.
It looks like after a couple weeks of cloudy skies, we are getting 2 nights in a row that will be mostly cloud free. Within this window, I decided to tackle the Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380). The NGC 7380 complex is located at a distance of approximately 8,500 light-years from the Sun, in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way. It takes some imagination to see the wizard with his pointed hat, face in-profile with a pointed noise and one star forming his right eye, and finally his spread arms with his left arm and hand being formed by some darker dust against the bright glow of the nebula. This image is a Ha-OIII-OIII (aka HOO) Narrowband image that has been color corrected to make it more natural looking. I'm going to get another night of narrowband data along with some broadband data and see if I can improve the details or color of this image.