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Bubble Nebula Widefield, March 13 2023

Although this image only mentions the Bubble Nebula in its title, there are several more objects displayed in this widefield image.

The Bubble Nebula itself is also known as NGC7635, or Sh2-162 and its Wikipedia page has some more information about it. You may also like to learn more from Wikipedia about M52, or NGC7654, Sh2-158, or NGC7538, Sh2-159, or even NGC7510 near the bottom right of the frame.

The colour mapping for this image is closer to the Hubble Palette style than to the HSO mapping I used for the Phantom of the Opera, and for The Spider & The Fly, but I haven't tried to move completely away from the yellow and green tones because they seem to contrast nicely with the surrounding red areas.

You can view this image in the WorldWideTelescope by clicking here.

Equipment details:

Mount: Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro

Telescope: Skywatcher Evostar 72ED

Telescope Accessory: OVL Field Flattener

Telescope Accessory: Gerd Neumann Camera Tilt Unit

Camera: QHY294M Pro

Filter Wheel: QHY Colour Filter Wheel

Filters: Antlia EDGE Series 4.5nm SHO Filters, Antlia V-Pro Series LRGB Filters

Guide scope: Skywatcher 9x50 finder guide scope

Guide camera: ZWO ASI178MC

Capture details:

Frames: 71

Exposure per frame: 300" (x12 H-alpha, x12 OIII, x11 SII), 30" (x12 red, x12 green, x12 blue)

Total Exposure Time: 3 hours 13 minutes

Camera Control Software: AstroPhotography Tool

Guiding Control Software: PHD2

Processing details:

Preprocessing Software: Starnet++

Stacking Software: AstroPixelProcessor

Image Manipulation Software: Adobe Photoshop

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