Recorded 2012 - 02 - 15


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Qcam9 mono
Filter: 1.25" Baader IR-pass (685nm), H-Beta

This session was to test my H-beta filter on the nebula. There are some nasty spikes. The filter got replaced by Baader, thanks to my very kind dealer.
I had captured the IR-pass data a few days earlier but i wanted to compare it with the H-beta test.

H-beta.


IR-pass.


Link Blink animation of the two images.

I played around with some color combinations with my new H-beta data:

R: Ha + 20% S-II
G: O-III + 20% Ha
B: H-beta + 20% O-III

Recorded 2011 - 02 - 26


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Qcam9 mono
Filter: 1.25" Baader 7nm Ha

5 x 600s.

Recorded 2011 - 02 - 20


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Qcam9 mono
Filter: 1.25" Baader Ha, O-III, S-II

Finally captured some better data in S-II and O-III.

R: 7 x 600s S-II
G: 11 x 300s Ha
B: 10 x 600s O-III
Lum: Combination of all 3


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Here are some other color variations:

R: O-III
G: Ha
B: S-II


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R: Ha + 24% S-II
G: O-III
B: O-III + 15% Ha


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Recorded 2011 - 02 - 08


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Qcam9 mono(
Filter: 1.25" Baader 7nm Ha

10 x 300s at 1x1 bin.

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R: S-II
G: Ha
B: O-III


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Recorded 2010 - 11 - 08


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Canon EOS 500D (unmodded)
Filter: 1.25" Baader UV/IR Cut

5 x 600s at ISO800.

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Recorded 2010 - 10 - 26


Lens: Canon EF 70-300mm @ 300mm
Camera: Canon EOS 500D (unmodded)

10 x 450s at ISO800.

Recorded 2010 - 09 - 30


Telescope: Skywatcher 120mm f/5 Achromat
Camera: Orion Starshoot Deep Space Monochrome Imager II
Filter: 1.25" Baader H-Alpha 7nm

An experiment to see how a widefield achromat would do in Ha, quite well actually.

20 x 13s + 10 x 30s + 15 x 120s.

Recorded 2010 - 09 - 17


Telescope: Scopos 80mm f/7 triplet
Camera: Canon EOS 500D (unmodded)

My first image of this nebula.

20 x 120s at ISO800.

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