Inside the Trunk - IC1396 dark nebula

[Andy Nowlen]

Working from my SkyShed pod observatory my C11 Rasa gathered quite a few very dark photons! The darkness was quite short. I started off with 220 sub-frames. After the clouds filled a few, the dawn arrived, and some were culled, I completed the project with 140. Short night-short exposures-fast scope = fun one night project.


C11 Rasa
Asi533mc pro
CEM70G
Nina
Mele Mini computer
140 * 60 seconds
Pixinsight et al
Photoshop

 

[JimFox]

Wow Andy!

I didn't recall that you had the Rasa C11. Wow! Now that's a scope!

Amazing the amount of detail you got in such a short time. I am hoping to get out to a deep sky site next week.

 

[Andy Nowlen]

Hi Jim,
Yes the Rasa does a fast job. I had purchased it late last winter, but really didn't get a chance to learn it until recently. It is a used V1 of C11. Because it came with a Celestron focuser, I had to learn Windows 11. I had not used Windows in more than 15 years. What a bummer. So now I have managed to get Nina functioning in Windows 11. I am used to the AsiAir and so all that learning took some good time! One downside is that I don't have any high speed filters. So I have found that I can use the L-enhance duo band filter. Another thing is that even 60 second sub frames are almost too long. So learning to stack the large number of files is a challenge. Over all I am glad to be able to get it into use.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Nothing like a fast scope, all dialed in. Fun image!

ML