Details

• Rig: Player One Ares-M Pro + Sky-Watcher 200PDS + EQ6R-Pro
• Software: NINA, PixInsight, GIMP.
• Filters: SvBony SHO 5nm
• Constellation: Perseus

Notes

A bright emission nebula located at a distance of 9,800 light years. The evening of 3rd Jan 2026 was dominated by a full Moon for the whole night as it tracked high across the sky. This made any broadband imaging impossible especially as the Moon’s path ran across the majority of this season’s most interesting deep sky objects. That aside, the sky was nicely stable with good transparency allowing excellent guiding with only one dropped frame in nearly thirteen hours.

PixInsight processing used the new Multi Scale Adaptive Stretch which proved intuitive and flexible, and gave excellent results.

    Integration time (running total):
    * HA 33 X 300s (180m)
    * SII 37 X 300s (185m)
    * OIII 33 X 300s (165m)
    * Total: 6h20m