Sharpless-86 and NGC 6823
Sharpless 86 (Sh2-86) is an emission nebula of glowing hydrogen in the constellation Vulpecula 6,175 light-years from Earth. A long dark
(dust) lane is seen near top-center with open star cluster NGC 6823 to the right.
file: Sh86&NBC6820-Cel925f7P2180sx31c1.jpg

Photographic Data
telescope:
Celestron 9.25-inch EdgeHD SCT at f/7 (focal length= 1,637 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 31 (93-minutes)

 

processing
Stacked in Asiair Plus and cropped and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements
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photographic site:
West Los Angeles
http://mstecker.com/pages/chhouses_fp.htm
(Bortle 9 light polluted sky)