Here’s my take on the Pac-Man Nebula (NGC 281), captured from my backyard in Tucson, Arizona under Bortle 7 skies.
Equipment:
Telescope: ZWO FF65 APO
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Mount: ZWO AM3N
Filter: SVBONY SV220 3nm dual-band
Total integration: 20 hours
Exposures: 300s
Processing: PixInsight
BlurXTerminator, DBE, NoiseXTerminator, StarXTerminator, Ha/OIII extraction, Narrowband Normalization, GHS, HistogramTransformation, CurvesTransformation, and final star recombination.
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