July 2012 Winner - Beginning and Intermediate Imaging's Finalist - lacomj
Jeff (lacomj)
NGC6823 Emission nebula and star cluster. Narrowband Image with HSHO filters as LRBG. Image data acquired from Virginia City, Nevada (outside Reno) USA on the nights of 7/10 and 7/11 2012.
Full-sized image of NGC6823 at Flickr.
Equipment
Boren Simon 8" Powernewt with ASA f/2.8 2KORRR reducer/corrector
SBIG ST-8300M CCD camera with FW8-8300 Filter Wheel (LRGBHOS) @ -10C
Orion Mini Autoguider Guide Scope w/Fishcamp Starfish guide camera
Atlas EQ-G mount
Image Details:
705 mins total exposure (11.75 hrs)
Luminance: Hydrogen: 73x300s
Red: Sulfur-II: 32x300s
Green: Hydrogen-alpha: 73x300s
Blue: Oxygen-III: 36x300s
Image acquired using Equinox Image, with guiding through PhD. Preprocessing (darks, flats) prepared using Nebulosity. Stacking and post-processing performed using PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Photoshop.
Image META information
1#090
%G
IPTC.ObjectName
NGC6823
IPTC.Keywords
Astronomy
2#062
20120722
2#063
233425-0600
IPTC.Caption
NGC6823 Emission nebula and star cluster.
Narrowband Image with HSHO filters as LRBG
Boren Simon 8" Powernewt with ASA f/2.8 2KORRR reducer/corrector
SBIG ST-8300M CCD camera with FW8-8300 Filter Wheel (LRGBHOS)
Orion Mini Autoguider Guide Scope w/Fishcamp Starfish guide camera
Atlas EQ-G
<b>Technical Details:</b>
705 mins total exposure (11.75 hrs)
Luminance: Hydrogen: 73x300s
Red: Sulfur-II: 32x300s
Green: Hydrogen-alpha: 73x300s
Blue: Oxygen-III: 36x300s
File Name
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Unix Timestamp
1474303277
Original File Size
170653
File Type
2
Mime Type
image/jpeg
Sections Found
ANY_TAG, IFD0, EXIF
HTML Sizes
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Image Height
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Image Width
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Image Description
NGC6823 Emission nebula and star cluster.
Narrowband Image with HSHO filters as LRBG
Boren Simon 8" Powernewt with ASA f/2.8 2KORRR reducer/corrector
SBIG ST-8300M CCD camera with FW8-8300 Filter Wheel (LRGBHOS)
Orion Mini Autoguider Guide Scope w/Fishcamp Starfish guide camera
Atlas EQ-G
<b>Technical Details:</b>
705 mins total exposure (11.75 hrs)
Luminance: Hydrogen: 73x300s
Red: Sulfur-II: 32x300s
Green: Hydrogen-alpha: 73x300s
Blue: Oxygen-III: 36x300s
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