Michael A. Stecker
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Simeis-147 (Sh2-240)
This is a collaboration of James Foster and me to photograph the very dim Simeis-147 (Sh2-240) "Spaghetti Nebula" near Taurus with my Askar 103 APO triplet refractor reduced to f/5.4 (FL= 556 mm) with a ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro full frame monochrome camera. This got about 70% of the nebula, which is a supernova remnant (exploded large star). It was photographed from a Bortle 4 site through 3 nm Hydrogen-alpha & Oxygen-III filters for 226 minutes and 161 minutes, respectively. This produced a false color HOO image where glowing hydrogen is red and oxygen cyan.
file: S147JRF-myAskar103APO-Ha&HOOcompositlm-flatco-sm.jpg

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Photographic Data
 telescope:
Askar 103 APO triplet refractor with 0.8X focal reducer
Aperture: 103 mm (4-inch)
Focal ratio: f/5.4
Focal Length: 556 mm

mount:
iOptron CEM60

imaging camera:
ZWO ASI6200MM-Pro full frame monochrome astro-camera
Near full frame image
filters:
Astrodon 3 nm Hydrogen alpha and 3 nm Oxygen-III

exposures:
3 nm Hydrogen-alpha & Oxygen-III filters for 226 minutes and 161 minutes, respectively.
Total exposure time: 387 minutes (6.45 hours)
guiding:
Off-axis with ZWO ASI120MM Mini guide camera
 
processing software:
Maxim DL, ASI Studio, Photoshop Elements 2021
This is a composite layer mask image made by stacking a red-colorized monochrome photo taken through a 3 nm Hydrogen-alpha filter and HOO (3nm H-alpha & 3nm Oxygen-III) bicolor image.

photographic site:
Pinon Pines Estates (Frazier Park) California
(Bortle 4 at 5,500 ft elevation
 
 
 
S-147 rotated 180-degrees counter clockwise 

 
Simeis-147 (Sh2-240) -- rotated 180-degrees counter clockwise
 file: S147JRF-myAskar103APO-Ha&RGBcompositlm-flatsm.jpg

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