Imaging North America and Pacman nebulae and H&Chi Cluster
For almost all images
| Instrument | : | Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6) |
| Camera | : | Omegon veTec 533 C / no filters / Gain : 256, Offset : 150 |
| Exposure | : | Image series - see below images |
| Software | : | N.I.N.A, SIRIL, GraXpert, Gimp |
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| North America Nebula NGC7000 (= SH 2-117, LBN 373) The Best I ever made |
| Date - Time : 30 August 2024 - 2100 UT |
| Series : 29 * 120 sec (= 58 Minutes) |
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| Pacman Nebula NGC281 (= SH2-184, IC1590) Revisited after many years |
| Date - Time : 30 August 2024 - 2200 UT |
| Series : 74 * 120 sec (= 148 Minutes) |
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| H & Chi Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884 or h persei and ? Persei) First time close look |
| Date - Time : 31 August 2024 - 0030 UT |
| Series : 15 * 120 sec (= 30 Minutes) planned 60 Minutes, but computer stopped unplanned. |
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| The actual setup with the Apochromatic refractor |
| Date : 30 August 2024 |
Equipment
Optics : Omegon Pro AP Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6) : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12) Camera : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011) : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021) Filter : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer add. optics : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system Mount : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors) Controller : EQStar Pro (since May 2023) Guiding : PHD2 Aquisition : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others Image Processing : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others latest list update : September 2024