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The Fish Head Nebula

Image Description and Details : The Fish head Nebula (IC1795) is a star forming region in Casseopeia, and part of the Heart Nebula Complex. Often seen as an appendage in wide field shots, close up it has some fascinating dust lanes, back lighting and reflection as well as emission components.
Its relatively close to Earth at 6000 light years. This image is shot in SHO ( Hubble) Palette and is full frame ( no crop) at 2650mm Focal length.

I shot this over 4 nights about two weeks ago on my Planewave CDK14 out in the New Mexico desert.

This was my first test of 15 min unguided sub shooting on the Planewave mounted on an L-350 mount. I was able to use about 80% of all subs.

Tech stuff:
Scope : Planewave CDK14
Mount : Planewave L-350
Camera : ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro ZWO filter wheel Astronomik filters
35 x 15 min Ha 12nm
30 x15 Min OIII 12nm
24 x15 Min SII 12nm
Shot as Bin 1 downsampled to Bin 2x2 in Pixinsight
Processing Pixinsight and PS 2021

Copyright: Richard Whitehead 2021

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