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Old 19-07-2018, 06:59 PM
furgle (Adam)
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Cats Paw Nebula

Image:

  • 72x 600s Sulphur-II 6nm
  • 97x 600s Hydrogen-alpha 6nm
  • 73x 600s Oxygen-III 6nm
Total integration 40 hours 20 minutes.
Hardware:

  • Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
  • Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
  • QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
  • Astronomik 6nm Hα, OIII, SII filters
  • Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
  • Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
  • Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:

  • Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
  • Imaged over 8 nights.
Software:

  • Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
  • Captured with TheSkyX Professional
  • Guiding with PHD2
  • FocusLock live focusing
  • PixInsight: Calibration, sub-frame analysis, registration, integration, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, histogram transformation, HDR multiscale transform, curves, star reduction, rotation, crop.
Higher resolution here: http://observatory.site/astrophotogr...ts_Paw_Nebula/
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