Always a difficult object to me, so small, so dim… and always come back and I try to take something… if you’ve ever struggled with it, you know what I mean 😀 a perfect example of planetary nebula.
The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The nebula is approximately 8,000 years old.
In that case is a little bit more that 50 hours of integration, using only a small area of the sensor because the small size of this object, heavily cropped after a drizzle process and still at 0.34 arcsec/pixel.
Technical card
Imaging telescopes or lenses:Teleskop Service TS Photoline 107mm f/6.5 Super-Apo, Altair Astro RC250-TT 10″ RC Truss Tube
Imaging cameras:ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool, ZWO ASI183MM-Cool
Mounts:Skywatcher EQ6R Pro, Mesu 200 Mk2
Guiding telescopes or lenses:Celestron OAG Deluxe, Teleskop Service TSOAG9 Off-Axis Guider
Guiding cameras:ZWO ASI174 Mini, ZWO ASI290 Mini
Focal reducers:Riccardi Reducer/Flattener 0.75x, Telescope-Service TS 2″ Flattener
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight , Seqence Generator Pro
Filters:Astrodon O-III 36mm – 5nm, Astrodon S-II 36mm – 5nm, Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm, Astrodon HA 36mm – 5nm, Astrodon L Gen.2 E-series 36mm
Accessories:ZWO EFW, MoonLite NiteCrawler WR30, MoonLite CSL 2.5″ Focuser with High Res Stepper Motor
Resolution: 2604×2322
Dates:Jan. 14, 2020, Feb. 21, 2020, Feb. 23, 2020, Feb. 25, 2020, Feb. 26, 2020
Frames:
Astrodon B Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90×30″ (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1×1
Astrodon G Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90×30″ (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1×1
Optolong Ha 7nm 36mm: 165×600″ (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1×1
Astrodon O-III 36mm – 5nm: 163×600″ (gain: 183.00) -15C bin 1×1
Astrodon R Gen.2 E-series 36mm: 90×30″ (gain: 75.00) -20C bin 1×1
Integration: 56.9 hours
Avg. Moon age: 16.01 days
Avg. Moon phase: 19.43%
Astrometry.net job: 3292004
RA center: 11h 14′ 48″
DEC center: +55° 1′ 8″
Pixel scale: 0.337 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 269.282 degrees
Field radius: 0.163
Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain
Data source: Own remote observatory
Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility
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