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Thursday, January 15, 2009

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I have never seen this object in HST narrowband colors.







After strucling with this last night, I don't wonder why.







This is a extremely difficult objekt it has a super low surface brightness and







it's huge!







This is a supernova remant in Taurus & Auriga
it has the angular diameter of 200'x180'.
Thats about 8 full Moon!







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There was very litle data on O-III channel.







With extreme stretching and by using the method I have developed for narrowband work, some O-III glow can be clearly be seen deep down in data.







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Total exposure time was relatively short doe the very fasr f1.8 optics.







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Exposures:







-H-alpha 12x600s binned 1x1+ 24x300s binned 2x2, total 4h







-S-II 5x600s binned 2x2







-O-III 14x300s binned 3x3







Optics:







Canon 200mm EF f1.8 @ f1.8







Camera:







QHY9 @ -50 C







Guiding:







Lx200 GPS 12" + LQHY5 and PHD-Guiding





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The information in O-III channel is extremely weak.


I used a special technique of mine to dig it out for color information.


This image serie shows how weak the O-III realy is.







Here is a Starless version to better show the nebulosity.





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I keep coming back to this fascinating object, there is something mysterious





about its appearance and the fact, that it's difficult to shoot makes it even more interesting.





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Here is some elaier tryouts with Sh2-240:




















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