A deep dive into GK Persei's hidden planetary nebulae

Image Title: DSC - A deep dive into GK Persei's hidden planetary nebulae

Copyright: Deep Sky Collective
Collaborators:  Tim Schaeffer, Justin P., Steeve Body, Carl Björk, BTB Astroteam Brentenriegel, Bogdan Borz, Nicola Beltraminelli, Sebastian Donoso, Antoine and Dalia Grelin, Mike Hamende, Jason Jacks, Paul Kent, Nicolas Puig, David Wood

Location: USA and Europe

Image Description and Details: Nova Persei 1901, or GK Persei for short, is a nova in the constellation of Perseus that lies at a distance of roughly 1400 light years and spans roughly 1 lightyear in diameter. 
A nova is an astronomical event characterised by a sudden spike in brightness of a white dwarf star in a binary system. For more details, refer to the blog on our website (https://deepskycollective.com/blog)
For the Deep Sky Collective „GK Persei“ was an interesting target as it images only very rarely due to it being a pretty hard target as it’s faint and small. With the small FOV group of the DSC we started gathering data in November and imaged for a total of 3 months. As the weather this season hasn’t been very kind, not everyone was able to contribute, however with  a total of 14 people working on GK Persei - 1 Editor, 2 stackers, 1 additional MSGR providers, myself coordinating it and only 9 photographers- we still managed to get a total of 265h of integration - the longest ever on GK Persei. 

Equipment Details: Celestron C9.25 SC XLT · Celestron RASA 8" · Deep Sky Instruments (DSI) DSI RC14 · Sky-Watcher Esprit 150ED · Sky-Watcher Quattro 8CF · Stellarvue SVX180T · TS-Optics 200mm/8" ONTC f/4.5 Newtonian (carbon tube) · TS-Optics 250mm/10" ONTC f/4 Newtonian (carbon tube)

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