Located in the constellation Orion, the “Monkey Head” nebula is about 6,400 lightyears from Earth.
This is a new version of my previous post with the same data. It's summertime here with extremely short nights and clouds all the time, so I'm taking the opportunity to work on new processing techniques and apply lessons I've learned in the months since I originally captured these photons.
Full frame photo available at: https://app.astrobin.com/i/qba33b
Subs:
- 79 Sii/Oiii frames at 600s (Ultra E2)
- 78 Ha/Oiii frames at 600s (L-Ultimate)
Total integration time: 26h 20m (4 nights)
Equipment:
- Telescope: Apertura 90mm Triplet Refractor
- Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Filters: Optolong L-Ultimate 2", Askar Color Magic 2" Ultra E2
- Mount: ZWO AM5N
- Accessories: ZWO EAF Pro
- Guidescope: Apertura 32mm
- Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini
Processing:
- Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
- RC Astro BlurXTerminator
- RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
- RC Astro StarXTerminator
- Adobe Photoshop 2026
by spidermanbyday