Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Sharpless 119 in Cygnus, visual spectrum version
Since beginning of September we have had three clear nights. This Autumn season has been the worst in twenty years.
I made a visual color version out of my two frame mosaics of Sharpless 119 (Sh2-119). You can find a mapped color version from HERE. My aim is to make a six panel mosaic of the whole area of the Sharpless 119. At the moment it's not possible due to weather up here.
Sharpless 119 as a two frame mosaic
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An experimental starless version
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INFO
A wider field image of the area, Canon 200mm f1.8 lens
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An other wide field shot, Tokina AT 300mm f2.8 lens
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Area of the two frame mossaic is marked as a white rectangle. More info about this photo HERE
Technical details
H-alpha, 30x 1200s, binned 2x2 = 10h
O-III and S-II channels are borrowed form my older wide field photos.
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
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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.
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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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
Please, click for a full size image
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
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.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
An other detail from the Southern Cygnus
This has been the most cloudy Autumn season in twenty years.
I'm still processing material from couple of clear nights we had this Autumn. I made another individual image out of the material, I shot for the WR 134 mosaic image.
An other nameless detail from the Southern Cygnus
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Image in visual spectrum
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The mosaic image
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The location in Cygnus
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The area of the mosaic image above is marked as a white rectangle.
Info about this large mosaic image can be seen 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
Astrodon filter, 3nm O-III
Astrodon filter, 3nm S-II
Exposure times
H-alpha, 21 x 1200s, binned 2x2 = 7h
O-III, 6 x 1200s binned 4x4 = 2h
S-II, 6 x 1200s binned 4x4 = 2h
Total 11h
Monday, November 13, 2017
A miss shot
Now and then something goes wrong... Especially when the target is very dim, it's very easy to miss the whole target while aiming to it.
I was shooting my first light for the Autumn season 2017 and I thought that my telescope was centred to the WR 134. It was not, instead I shot some dim filaments of gas and lots of stars next to actual target.
Not much a photo but I didn't want to waste three hours of exposures so I made this image out of them. Color data is borrowed from my older mosaic image of the area.
Please, click for a full resolution photoI was shooting my first light for the Autumn season 2017 and I thought that my telescope was centred to the WR 134. It was not, instead I shot some dim filaments of gas and lots of stars next to actual target.
Not much a photo but I didn't want to waste three hours of exposures so I made this image out of them. Color data is borrowed from my older mosaic image of the area.
A miss shot
A large image of the area
Please, click for a full resolution photo
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