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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Sharpless 119 in Cygnus, project continues



I have published first photo out of Sharpless 119 at 8.11. 2017, since then we have had a full cloud cover. Yesterdat we had about three hours of clear skies and I was able to shoot an other frame next to first one. My target is to make a six panel mosaic image out of the whole Sharpless 119.


Sharpless 119 as a two frame mosaic
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Image is in mapped colours, from the emission of ionized elements, R=Sulphur, G=Hydrogen and B=Oxygen. The photo covers about two square degrees of sky. (The full Moon spans about 0,5 degrees of sky.)


An experimental starless version
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In this starless version the shapes in gas and dust are much easier to see.


INFO

Sh2-119, Sharpless 119, is a large complex of emission nebulosity in Cygnus constellation, about 2 degrees east of the North American Nebula. It is located just around 68 Cygni, a quite bright star of magnitude 5. (The most bright star in the photo)



A wider field image of the area, Canon 200mm f1.8 lens
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Sharpless 119 can be seen at lower left corner. The white rectangle shows the location of the new photo. It spans about a square degree of sky. (The full Moon spans about 0,5 degrees of sky.)
This photo was taken with the Canon EF 200mm f1.8 lens and the QHY9 astrocam, Baader narrowband filter set at 2012.


An other wide field shot, Tokina AT 300mm f2.8 lens

More info about this photo HERE



Technical details

Processing work flow

Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.
Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack2.
Deconvolution with a CCDStack2 Positive Constraint, 33 iterations, added at 50% weight
Color combine in PS CS3
Levels and curves in PS CS3.

Imaging optics
Celestron Edge HD 1100 @ f10 with 0,7 focal reducer for Edge HD 1100 telescope

Mount
10-micron 1000

Cameras and filters
Imaging camera Apogee Alta U16 and Apogee seven slot filter wheel
Guider camera, Lodestar x 2 and SXV-AOL

Astrodon filter, 5nm H-alpha

Exposure times

H-alpha, 30x 1200s, binned 2x2 = 10h
O-III and S-II channels are borrowed form my older wide field photos.











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