Bright and Dark Nebulae in Cepheus

Captured on September 22nd at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s latest offering the QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame one shot color CMOS camera that we have the honor of testing. A myriad of different types of objects are visible in this wide field image covering over 4 x 2.4 degrees of sky. From Lynde’s Catalogues of Bright and Dark Nebulae LDN 1089, LDN 1100, LDN 1094, LBN 444, LBN 447. Emission Nebula Sh2-130, face-on intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 6949 and 17 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.

 

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Technical Info:

Total Integration time 3.75 hours

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

Date of capture: September 22nd 2020

Color RGGB 225 min, 45 x 300 sec

Camera: QHY410C Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS

Gain 0, Offset 76

Read Mode: High Gain Mode

Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Takahashi E-180 Astrograph

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processed in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processed in Photoshop

 

 

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