IC443 and NGC 2174.
The Jellyfish and Monkey head nebulae.
This image was taken on two separate evenings under very clear sky conditions with stars visible down to about magnitude 5.
I piggybacked an Atik 383L mono CCD camera with a Pentacon 200mm lens on my ten inch reflector with Astronomik filters attached to the front of the lens.
This was mounted on a Vixen Atlux mount.
I captured 3 minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect of noise and vignetting in the final image.
The total exposure time was 120 minutes using a H Alpha filter, 30 minutes using an O111 filter, 30 minutes using an S11 filter and 10 minutes using a blue filter.
Hubble Palette
RGB
RGB + Hubble Palette
