Friday 13 December 2019

C 1318 The Butterfly Nebula

IC 1318 The Butterfly Nebula. This patch of nebulosity lies in the star constellation of Cygnus the Swan.

I was using my 80mm F7 refractor, a Vixen Atlux mount and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera . The filters was a set of Astronomik narrowband filters . Ha. S11 and O111. I captured ten minute sub frames and combined them with dark frames and flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times were sixty minutes for each filter.