Saturday, 1 May 2021

M97 The Owl Nebula

This image was taken with my 10 inch f/4.8 reflector, a Vixen Atlux mount, PHD auto-guiding and an Atik 383L mono CCD camera.

I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect  of vignetting in the final image.

The total exposure times were 60 minutes using an OIII filter, 60 minutes using a H-alpha filter, 35 minutes using an SII filter and 15 minutes using a blue filter.

Narrowband luminance with RGB data


Hubble Palette

Hubble Palette plus RGB colour

Data from two cameras, Atik 383L mono camera and Atik 314L mono camera