Reflection Nebula NGC 2626
17-Jun-2020
NGC 2626 is a seldom photographed, spectacular reflection nebula in a sea of hydrogen emission clouds.
Image:
- 45x 300s CLS-CCD light pollution filter
- 78x 300s Red
- 78x 300s Green
- 30x 300s Blue
Total integration 19 hours 15 minutes. Focal length: 1980mm
Hardware:
- Celestron 11" EdgeHD
- Celestron 0.7x EdgeHD focal reducer
- Skywatcher EQ8 Pro mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik CLS-CCD light pollution filter
- Astrodon RGB Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Innovations Foresight ONAG
- Starlight Instruments Feather Touch Focuser
Location:
- Exposed over 8 nights between 29th February 2019 and 29th March 2020
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
- Captured with TheSkyX Professional
- Guiding with PHD2
- PixInsight: Calibrate, align, integrate, dynamic background extraction, LRGB combination, noise reduction, photometric color calibration, masked stretch, local histogram equalization, curves, crop.