The “Flaming Star” nebula is about 1,500 lightyears from Earth and 5 lightyears across.

This is my re-processing of the same data from my earlier post. With a couple months more practice under my belt, I was astounded to see how much detail I could bring out of my data that was completely lost before!

Check out https://app.astrobin.com/i/legv0r for the full frame photo (which includes the Tadpole as well).

Light frames: 49 x 300s, total integration time 4 hours 5 minutes.

Equipment:

  • Telescope: Apertura 90mm Triplet Refractor
  • Reducer/Flattener: Apertura 0.8x (R-FLAT)
  • Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
  • Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate 2"
  • Mount: ZWO AM5N
  • Guidescope: Apertura 32mm
  • Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini

Processing:

  • Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
    • RC Astro BlurXTerminator
    • RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
    • RC Astro StarXTerminator
  • Adobe Photoshop 2025

by spidermanbyday

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