After nearly 3 months of cloudy nights on the east coast of Australia , the 23rd January provided about 6 hours of clear skies to image, but you guessed it, a near full moon was lighting up the sky.
As the ongoing forecast to at least late February early March was more cloudy nights , I decided to pick a big bright target like NGC 3372 and complete an imaging run in that small window of opportunity.
Clouds cleared around 10.30pm , locked on to the target and was imaging by 11.00pm
Finished my session at 4.30am after taking Flats ( total integration 3 hours )
Due to my set up I can only fit 50% of this beautiful nebula in my FOV
Location : South Coast NSW
Skies : Bortle 3
Conditions : Average to Good Seeing
Full Moon
Very light wind ( 5 to 8 km/hr )
Thankfully no Dew
NexDome Obs
Telescope : 10" f5 Klaus Helmerich Carbon Fibre Newt
Mount : Skywatcher EQ8-R Pro
Imaging Camera : ZWO 2600MM temp -10C , Gain 100
Coma Corrector : TS Optics GPU
Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7 x 2"
Filters : Antlia 3nm Pro Ha , Oiii and Sii
Guide Scope : Orion 60mm with helical focuser
Guide Camera : ZWO 290MM
ZWO EAF
22 x 3min subs Ha
20 x 3 min subs Oiii
22 x 3 min subs Sii
Darks from Library
Bias from Library
Flats Ha, Oiii , Sii
Tracking and Goto : Eqmod and Stellarium
Aquisition : APT
Guiding : PHD2 ( 0.45 to 0.55 arc sec total rms avg )
Analysed , Calibrated and Stacked in ASTAP
Processed in Startools V1.8 ( Data Sets loaded into Compose , Color SHO: HST preset with tweaks )
Also used Startools Spatially Variant PSF Deconvolution ( 12 samples , 8 iterations ) to improve the res
Quite happy with level of fine detail for only 3 hours of data
Astrobin link below for max resolution……
https://www.astrobin.com/lkrhma/
Also reprocessed the image , uploaded in Astrobin with some slight improvements
Thanks for Looking
Comments Welcome
Clear Skies
Martin
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula in SHO under Full Moon
NGC 3372 Carina Nebula in SHO under Full Moon
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