Saturn Nebula
27-Sep-2020
The Saturn Nebula is a tiny but complex planetary nebula, ~4000 light years away in Aquarius. The Saturn Nebula gets its name from its resemblance to the planet Saturn to the observer.
Image:
- 69x 180s 6nm S-II
- 65x 180s 6nm H-α
- 62x 180s 6nm O-III
Total integration 9.8 hours.
Hardware:
- Celestron 11" EdgeHD
- Skywatcher EQ8-Rh mount
- QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
- Astronomik 6nm narrowband filters
- Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
- Starlight Xpress Large Format Active Optics
- Starlight Instruments On Axis Guider
Location:
- Imaged over 4 nights between 17th and 24th October 2020.
- Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)
Software:
- Planning & camera alignment with Aladin 10
- Captured with TheSkyX Professional
- Guiding with PHD2
- FocusLock live focusing
- PixInsight: Calibrate, align, stack, deconvolution, pixelmath SHO combination, histogram stretch, curves, HDR multiscale transform, local histogram equalization.