Processed with Definitely need more photon's to collect, so we can observe the intricate details better. In this image, I had to push the stretching to the limits, impacting the background to be brighter than I wanted. The signal/lightpollution ratio in this integration, was not good.
Category Deep sky
Telescope Apertura CarbonStar 150mm F/3.8 + ZWO ASI585MC AIR
Captured 2 Oct 2026 Moon Waning gibbous, 57% lit
Camera ZWO ASI585MC AIR
Mount ZWO AM5-N
Integration 30 × 3 min = 1.5 h
Size 7596 × 4274 Bortle class Class 6 (from the light pollution map) The Bortle class comes from a model of the sky glow (Duriscoe et al. 2018). This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nighttime Lights data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines (CC BY 4.0, via doi:10.5281/zenodo.7750174). The model is calibrated with Globe at Night SQM readings (CC BY 4.0). The usual error is 0.3 magnitude.
SQM 19.11 mag/arcsec²
Location Near 51.1°N, 4.0°E (±10 km)
Field centre 3h 46m 53s, +68° 05′ 50″
Field size 1.10° × 37′
Pixel scale 0.52″ per pixel License All rights reserved