IC63 Ghost Nebula

Constellation: Cassiopeia        Distance: 590 lightyears

M16


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Image spcefications:
  • Exposure: 5 hours Ha
  • Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM, Temp -10 ° C, Filter Astrodon 5 nm Ha, 3nm O3
  • Instrument: TEC 140, focal distance 980 mm
  • Mount: Paramount MX+
  • Guiding: TS Off Axisguider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider and PHD
  • Location: Nozières, France
  • Ambient temperature: round 16° C
  • Date: Between 10 September 2023
  • © Frans Kroon, Arno-MarkBlesgraaf

Image acquisition Sequence Generator Pro:
  • 30 H-alpha of 10 min, binned 1x1
  • 25 Flat fields per channel with Flatfield panel
  • 20 Dark frames of 10 min + 50 Bias frames

Processed with PixInsight 1.8.9-2:

    Lineair:
  • ImageCalibration and StarAlignment
  • ImageIntegration
  • BlurXTerminator

  • Non Lineair:
  • HistogramTransformation /li>
  • NoiseXTerminator

  • StarXTerminator
  • HDRMultiscaleTransform
  • LocalHistogramEqualization
  • HistogramTransformation
  • MultiscaleLineairTransform