M1 Crab Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha | SC 3.1 The Brain 39x46s | Altair 290M WO71 f/5.7 | 20180125 Morgan B

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M1 Crab Nebula in Hydrogen Alpha | SC 3.1 The Brain 39x46s | Altair 290M WO71 f/5.7 | 20180125 Morgan B

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Clouds were coming and going. First run at The Brain was polluted by passing clouds when it recommended 46-second subs. When the clouds cleared the sky became dark and transparent even though the 8-day old Moon was only 20 degrees away. The second run at The Brain recommended an exposure of 106 seconds at the same gain. I went with that but after a few frames I realized that my guiding wasn't up to it, so I reduced the exposure to 46 seconds. I collected a total of 78 sub frames but I had to discard about 30 frames due to clouds. Of the remaining 48 frames I had Deep Sky Stacker discard another 20% due to guiding imperfections.

39 Lights, 10 Darks, 10 Bias
(I tried to do Flats but I did not have a strong enough red light source and I did not want to leave the scope out all night.)

Orion 7nm Hydrogen Alpha
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Nice image Brian.

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Thanks, Dave. As you know I tried imaging M1 in Ha several weeks ago with unsatisfactory results. The single most important lesson learned is to always check your focus after changing filters, even if you have a quality filter wheel.
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