{"id":349,"date":"2010-05-24T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=349"},"modified":"2010-05-24T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T11:54:29","slug":"sh2-129-its-a-faint-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"SH2-129, its a faint one!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the complete disaster on Saturday night (my laptop PSU dying as I go to plug it in outside, scuppering the rest of thee vening completley), I was please to see that everything still works as it should when things go right.<\/p>\n<p>I`ve had SH2-129 on my shortlist for a while now, its about the right size for the Borg77 + M25C combo, but its always been just a bit too low in the sky (its at the tail end of Cepheus, near IC1396 Elephant Trunk Neb).<\/p>\n<p>With the moon glaring away in the sky, it had to be a Hydrogen Alpha evening, so I pointed at this target and let it run with 15 minute subs. I was a bit concedrned when almost nothing showed up in the first image!<\/p>\n<p>This is 15 x 900s with the Baader 7nm filter&#8230; I think it needs a LOT longer subs and a lot more combined time to get this to show te better detail, including the Barnard dark nebula areas in the image (thats B150 on top right I believe). It will also do better when it is higher in the sky, but then there will be a whole load of interesting objects around then as well. Maybe I`ll return to it&#8230;. maybe..<\/p>\n<p>Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD<br \/>\nOTA: Borg 77EDII @ f\/4.3<br \/>\nGuiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + Maxim<br \/>\nImaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 15\u00c3\u2014900s, Baader 7nm Ha (101 bias, 101 flats)<br \/>\nOrchestrated: CDD Commander<br \/>\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker<br \/>\nPost Process: PSCS2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(Click on image for larger but noisier version)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/images\/misc\/20100523_sh2-129_mid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/misc\/20100523_sh2-129_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the complete disaster on Saturday night (my laptop PSU dying as I go to plug it in outside, scuppering the rest of thee vening completley), I was please to see that everything still works as it should when things go right. I`ve had SH2-129 on my shortlist for a while now, its about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steves-astro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}