🦁 The Lion Nebula (Sh 2-132) in SHO - a region roughly the size of the full moon being ionized by two Wolf–Rayet stars. This is my 5th astro image in just around a week. It was an incredible stretch of weather (even with the moonlight), but I'm ready for a full night's sleep. Can you spot the lion?

Acquisition Details:

Light Frames (~16 hours): Sii: 65 * 5.5 Mins

HA: 61 * 5.5 Mins

Oiii: 48 * 5.5 Mins

Dark Frames: 50

Bias Frames: 100

Flat Frames: 15

Gear:

ZWO ASI2600-MM Pro

800mm Apertura CarbonStar 200 w/ 1.x Coma Corrector

SkyWatcher EQ-6 R Pro

ZWO EAF

ZWO ASI290MM Mini Guide Camera

Optolong 36mm Filters

SVBONY 30mm Guide Scope

Bortle Class 5 Sky (New Jersey)

Editing

Weighted Batch Preprocessing (Stacking, aligning, integrating, plate solving)

ChannelCombination (SHO = RBG)

Graxpert

Spectrophotometric Color Calibration (SPCC)

BlurX (Deconvolution)

StarX (Star Removal)

Invert and SCNR the stars, invert back (Removes magenta cast from SHO stars)

SHONormalization (Boost Sii and…