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[bpaczkowski]

NGC7822, a young star forming complex in the constellation of Cepheus. This complex is about 800-1000 parsecs from the Sun and contains pillars of creation-type star formations. Taken over the past couple of months at my telescope’s location in New Mexico. This image uses the Hubble palette (SHO) where Red=SII, Green=H-alpha, and Blue=OIII. This SHO image also includes RGB data for the star color.  A total of 41 hours of narrowband data and 6 hours of RGB data. Processed in PixInsight. 

 

Data
Ha 82 x 10 min, 1x1
OIII 82 x 10 min, 1x1
SII 82 x 10 min, 1x1
R 24 x 5min, 1x1
G 24 x 5min, 1x1
B 24 x 5min, 1x1

Darks
50x5 min
50x10 min

Flats
32 flats per filter

Bias
100 bias frames

Equipment
Televue 76

QSI 683 CCD camera with Astrodon LRGB Ha OIII SII filters at -20C
10Micron GM2000 HPS II mount

 

Edited by bpaczkowski, 04 December 2020 - 12:31 AM.

[MHamburg]

This is an amazing image! Were you there or was it a remote acquisition?

 

Michael

[bpaczkowski]

This is an amazing image! Were you there or was it a remote acquisition?

 

Michael

Michael, 

 

Thanks. I do remote acquisition.  I'm renting a pier in an observatory in southern New Mexico.  

 

- Brian

[elmiko]

Excellent image Brian! I always like natural star color in any image! You have gone the extra mile by adding them to this narrowband image!