PACMAN Nebula
Always a fun object to shoot. In this case, I used my small refractor with my One Shot Color camera.
Taken from my home in Illinois under Bortle ~8 skies, I get decent results with a older but very good Light Pollution filter, the Optolong L-Pro.
NGC 281 or IC 1590 or Sh2-184 is a bright emission nebula lies at a distance of ~9,500 light years in our own Milky Way galaxy.
The PacMan resides in the wonderful constellation of Cassiopeia
Photo Capture Info:
~5 hours worth of 3 minute exposures stacked.
Equipment Used:
Optolong L-Pro Light Pollution Filter
Scope: William Optics 61mm Refractor
Camera: ZWO 183MC Pro
Mount: iOptron GEM 28
Beelink Mini PC, Mini S
Focuser: ZWO EAF
The Chair or 'W' of Cassiopeia
Annotated Image with Coordinates
PixInsight Processing Details
Blur Xterminator
SpectrophotometricCC_RGB
GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch to get to Linear State
Noise Exterminator
Another round of Blur Xterminator
HDRMultiscaleTransform
Slight S-Curves Adjustment
LocalHistogramEqualization @ 25
LocalHistogramEqualization @ 75
MultiscaleLinearTransform with small values to Sharpen