SH2-224 – the Rice Hat Nebula

Very cool (and very dim!) nebula. Took a whole lof of Oiii exposure to bring out any details. Taken from my Driveway in Roxborough, CO.

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Total integration: 25h 59m

Integration per filter:

– R: 28m (14 × 120")

– G: 28m (14 × 120")

– B: 28m (14 × 120")

– Hα: 9h 15m (111 × 300")

– OIII: 15h 20m (184 × 300")

Equipment:

– Optics: Astro-Physics StarFire EDFS 130mm f/6, Takahashi TOA-130NS

– Camera: Player One Zeus-M Pro

– Mount: Astro-Physics Mach2 GTO

– Filters: Chroma Blue 50 mm, Chroma Green 50 mm, Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 50 mm, Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm, Chroma Red 50 mm

– Accessories: Astro-Physics 2.7" Prime Focus Field Flattener for Legacy StarFire f6 EDFS Refractors (13027FF-EDFS), iOptron Electronic Automatic Focuser (iEAF), MoonLite NiteCrawler 3.5", Takahashi 645 Flattener for TOA-130 (TKA31587S), WandererAstro WandererRotator Lite

– Software: Adobe Photoshop, Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight, Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)