Prawn Nebula in Natural Color - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Prawn Nebula in Natural Color

10-Aug-2018
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Prawn Nebula in Natural Color
IC 4628, sometimes known as The Prawn Nebula, is an emission nebula located around 6000 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius

For an emission line view of this nebula, see here.

Image:

  • 18x 60s red
  • 21x 60s green
  • 18x 60s blue

Total integration 57 minutes.

Hardware:

  • Skywatcher Black Diamond 80ED
  • Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
  • QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
  • Astronomik luminance, deep sky RGB filters
  • Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
  • Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider
  • Starlight Instruments Focus Boss II

Location:

  • Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
  • New Moon.

Software:

  • Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
  • Captured with TheSkyX Professional
  • Guiding with PHD2
  • FocusLock live focusing
  • PixInsight: calibrate, align, stack, crop, color calibration, dynamic background extraction, noise reduction, stretch, curves.

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