Rosette Nebula and Cluster NGC2237, 3 Dec 2019

[The Thing]

This is lovely scope, very happy with it. It would be interesting to see how it performed with a full frame sensor.

Rosette  captured with N.I.N.A. Exp. 30.00s X 577 (4.8 hours).
Image date, time and location:   2019-12-03, Manche, France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:   Sharpstar 61EDPH with flattener
Camera and filters used:   ZWO ASI294MC Pro - Gain 300.00 (unity 120), Offset 10.00,Temp.-14.10, Baader Neodymnium 1.25" filter
Pixinsight Processing: ABE_PCC_SM_Decon_MLT_HT_MT_CS_Conv(stars)_LHE_SCNR - it's a bit over sharpened.

Click image for full size uncropped version (you may have to download it to see the full resolution).

[ApophisAstros]

Good one ,thought it should have more of a red hue?
Roger

[The Thing]

Thanks Roger. It's all subjective. I don't like subjects too uniformly red as the nebulosity variations are masked.

[RobertM]

Hi Duncan,

Nice capture, good to see another image from you.  You've got some good star shapes there, we do colours to our own personal taste though it does look a little luminous for mine.

Did you use SharpCap to recommend sub exposure length and number of exposures ?  577 subs - must have heated that poor Intel CPU up a bit !

Best
Robert

[The Thing]

Thanks Robert. Yes it took ages to calibrate and stack using the new WBPP Weighted Batch Pre-Procesing script which is excellent. I have an i7 4GHz 8 processor 16Gb desktop PC and it took about 2.5 hours. However it is a set it and forget it operation unless there is an error - such as PI seemingly being unable to get the bayer matrix code (RGGB) from the FITS file automatically so I have to remember to set it and not use 'Auto'. The script doesn't throw the error until it tries to debayer.

[NoelC]

Just terrific.
so much detail.
Noel

[Hugh]

A really lovely picture!

I clicked into the pic and then clicked again and got a magnified view of part of the picture which shows many more stars than you can see in the initial laptop picture. Doing a (very rough) calculation of the possible number of stars, I came up with at least, and probably many more than, 42,000!

Wow!

Hugh

[The Thing]

Thanks Hugh, yes it's really full of stars!

[The Thing]

Hi Robert,

Further to your query of the 1st inst. - 577 subs were the good ones out of 600 which is what I managed to get NINA to do in the time available. Unlike Voyager you can't have a sequence run until the end of astronomical dark so you have to do an old fashioned guestimate of how many subs factoring in time for a flip, which NINA handles perfectly.

And as to luminosity, it will look good in Dougs observing report up on the big screen

Duncan

[Roberto]

Well done!  That's quite a lot of frames to go through!

Roberto