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Michael A. Stecker
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IC1318A (northwest of Gamma Cygni)
This emission/reflection nebula is northwest of the bright star Sadr (Gamma Cygni) file: IC1318A180sX27P1aAP130F4d7-8182023b.jpg Photographic Data telescope: Astro-Physics 130 mm EDF Starfire refractor reduced to f/4.7 with a focal length of 618 mm.
mount:
ZWO AM5 harmonic/strainwave Mount Guide Settings in Asiair Plus: Calibrate Step: 5,000 ms Dec Duration: 3,000 ms RA Duration: 2,000 ms Aggression: 50% for both RA & Dec Exposure time for guiding: 1 second
Guiding hardware:
SVBony 60 mm f/4 guidescope (fl=240 mm) Guide Camera: ZWO ASI662MC color planetary camera (2.97 micron pixels) controller/computer ZWO Asiair Plus via WiFi to Samsung S7+ tablet . imaging camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro one-shot color astro-camera cooled to 14-degrees F with Optolong L-eNhanced nebular filter . exposures: 180 seconds X 27 (81-minutes or 1.35 hours)
processing
Stacked in Asiair Plus and cropped and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements . photographic site: West Los Angeles http://mstecker.com/pages/chhouses_fp.htm (Bortle 9 light polluted sky) |
