The Snake Nebula (also known as Barnard 72) is a small but S-shaped dust lane that snakes out in front of the Milky Way star clouds.
This is a test shot with minimal processing from a night of observatory automation software testing.
Better resolution here
Image Integration:
- 33x 90s red
- 31x 90s green
- 34x 90s blue
Total exposure 2 hours 27 minutes.
Hardware:
- Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
- SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik Deep Sky RGB filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
Location:
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
- Captured with AstroArt 6
- Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
- CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
- PixInsight: Background neutralization, linear fit, histogram stretch, saturation.