I don't usually photograph open clusters, but with that rich Ha field, I couldn't resist!
Much higher quality version here
Image:
- 38x 180s Red
- 35x 180s Green
- 33x 180s Blue
- 31x 300s 6nm Hα
Total integration 7 hours, 53 minutes.
Hardware:
- Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
- Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik 6nm Hα, deep sky RGB filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
- Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II
Location:
- Imaged on 2 nights: 31st May and 4th June 2019.
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
- Captured with TheSkyX Professional
- Guiding with PHD2
- FocusLock live focusing
- PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, NBCombinator, histogram stretch, curves.