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FROM THE OBSERVATORY · 24-May-2018

Snake Nebula

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Snake Nebula
The Snake Nebula (also known as Barnard 72) is a small but S-shaped dust lane that snakes out in front of the Milky Way star clouds.
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Notes from the session

Image Integration:
33x 90s red
31x 90s green
34x 90s blue



Total exposure 2 hours 27 minutes.

Hardware:

Skywatcher Black Diamond 120ED
SkyWatcher EQ8 Pro Mount
QSI 683-ws8 Camera @ -15°C
Astronomik Deep Sky RGB filters
Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2 Autoguider
Starlight Xpress Active Optics
Innovations Foresight On Axis Guider



Location:
Orange zone in Brisbane, Australia. (Bortle 7)



Software:
Planning & camera alignment with The SkyX Pro
Captured with AstroArt 6
Guiding with PHD2 + PHD_Dither
CCDStack 2+: Calibrate, align, stack.
PixInsight: Background neutralization, linear fit, histogram stretch, saturation.