Since my previous LRGB+HA image which can be seen here I managed to capture more data in the SII and OIII areas. The bubble nebula has always fascinated me, it lies between 7100 and 11000 light years from Earth and is regarded as an Emission Nebula, inside the bubble there is a central star which is thought to be greating an expansion based on the massive mollecular cloud surrounding the star itself.
The data for this image was captured over a number of nights from the South East of the UK:
Aug. 16, 2016
Aug. 17, 2016
Oct. 2, 2016
Dec. 22, 2016
Dec. 26, 2016
Dec. 28, 2016
Jan. 2, 2017
Jan. 19, 2017
Jan. 20, 2017
Equipment Details-
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF F4 Imagine Newtonian
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED Refractor
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW
Filters: Baader Planetarium 7nm HA, OIII and SII 36mm Unmounted
Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL
Processing: PixInsight
I am really getting to understand PixInsight for image processing and the results have excelled the image quality fromt he same set of data
