NGC281 - The Pacman Nebula

NGC281 - The Pacman Nebula

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Found directly beneath the 'W' of Cassiopeia

Scope: Planewave 12.5" CDK
Camera: Apogee U16M w Astrodon Gen II Filters
Mount: Paramount ME guided with an Astrodon MMOAG/ST-402ME
24 x 20 min H-Alpha; 10/11/12 x 10 min RGB

Acquired with CCD-Commander and TheSkyX
Bias subtraction followed by Cosmetic Correction then alignment, stacking and stretching in PixInsight; h-alpha combined w RGB via Photoshop CC 2019
Lucknow, Ontario
Nov 2019

Here is the pure RGB image, before addition of the h-alpha data (Click on the image to see a 3x larger version):

And here is the H-alpha channel only (Click on the image to see a 3x larger version):

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