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Sh2-104 Nebula

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click the image for an ~ 50% size view. (1800 x 1200 - 0.83 MB)

Instrument

12.5" RCOS @ ~ f/9 (2880 mm fl) at 0.64 arcsec/pixel. Shown at 1.36 and 3.26 arcsec/pixel.

Mount

Paramount ME

Camera

SBIG STL-11000 w/ FW8 filter wheel & AstroDon 6nm Ha filter.

Acquisition Data

6/11/2011 to 7/2/2011 Chino Valley, AZ. with CCDAutoPilot3 & CCDSoft.  AOL guided

Exposure

Ha

840 min (28 x 30 min. each channel) Bin 1x1

Click here for the RGB color image.

Software & Processing Notes

  • CCDSoft, CCDStack, PixInsight, Photoshop CS6.

  • CCDBand-Aid to repair KAI-11000M vertical bars.

  • CCDStack to calibrate the sub exposures.

  • PixInsight to register, normalize, data reject, combine the  sub exposures and non-linear stretching with HistogramTransformation.

  • PhotoShop for the final touch-up.

Comment

North is to the right.

Sh2-104, also cataloged as DWB 14, is about 14,000 light years away toward the Cygnus constellation.