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NGC281 Pacman Nebula
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Absolutely beautiful image. 

Jeffrey W. McClure
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Very well done, Timothy.

Nice color and detail.

 

Johnny B

Nice image
 
Dave Eisfeldt

I acquired the data for this image across 2 nights, 9-9-24 and 9-25-24, from my backyard in Morgan's Point Resort. This is the longest total integration I've done on a single target but I think it paid off. It was also the first time I used an off-axis guider, and what a world of difference that made. My 50mm guide scope works fine when shooting 5 minute exposures, but when I started shooting 10+ for narrowband I had all kinds of problems. Switching to an OAG solved them pretty much immediately.


Equipment: iOptron CEM60, Explore Scientific ED102, ZWO 294MM Pro, Optolong 2" 3nm SHO filters, Starshoot autoguider on ZWO OAG

Light frames: 14x600s Ha, 17x600s each SII and OIII, total integration 8 hrs

Calibration frames: 25x each darks, flats, dark flats

Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, GIMP, Siril

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