Target: NGC 6188 "The Dragons of Ara" & NGC 6164 "Dragon's Egg Nebula" in SHO.
Two panel mosaic with 30hrs integration total (5hrs of Sii + Ha + Oiii per mosaic panel).
Date: Imaged in June 2023 from ACT region, Australia.
Equipment:
- Scope: William Optics Zenithstar 81 with Flattener
- Camera: ZWO533MM Pro
- Filters: Optolong 1.25" H-alpha 7nm, Optolong 1.25" OIII 6.5nm, Optolong 1.25" SII 6.5nm
- Mount: EQ6-R Pro
Processing:
Processed in PixInsight:
- WBPP with 2x Drizzle and Autocrop enabled
- Dynamic Crop, Image Solver, DBE and BlurXTerminator per SHO channel
- LRGB Combine for SHO
- Magenta reduction for stars
- Mosaic by Coordinates
- Gradient Merge Mosaic
- Image Calibration
- Histogram Transform for stretching, hue and saturation
- NoiseXTerminator
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