The Spaghetti Nebula Simeis 147 or Sh2-240 is a large, faint supernova remnant located between the constellations Taurus and Auriga, about 3,000 light-years away. Faint is a modest description of Im being honest.
This was my first time imaging this target. I knew it would be tough. You can barely see it on any sky atlas. So, I was home for 2 weeks in my home town of Waterford, Ireland. My mother’s back garden is actually great for astrophotography. Sitting nicely in a bortle 6 it’s much more forgiving that my usual bortle 9 Toronto.
Anyway I got a string of clear nights over Christmas(rare for Ireland) and I made good use of them. You can barely make out the structure of the nebula in a single sub. Doubt set in a lot if I was going to garner decent results. Of the 340 subs I threw out 163 of them sit to intermittent clouds. So just under 15hrs of integration. I’ll add more to it soon but for now I’m please to say the least.
Zwo 2600mc pro,
Askar fma 180 pro,
Proxisky Ragdoll 17 pro,
Zwo guide cam and scope,
Optolong L-Ultimate,
Zwo Asiair plus
177x5min subs,
40x dark, flat & bias,
Stacked in Astro pixel processor,
Processed in Pixinsight,
Dynamic crop,
Dbe,
Blur x,
Stat stretch,
Star x,
Mas,
Narrowband normalization,
Curves transformation,
Pixel math,
Further stretching and adjustments in photoshop.
by GaryCPhoto