Stellar Shot of the Week
Stellarvue 130T - LBN 471
Bill Brown caught this brilliant image of LBN 471 in Cepheus with his Stellarvue 130T. This faint emission nebula is a rich HII region with star clusters and dark dust lanes. Located approximately 12,000 light-years away from Earth and spanning roughly 220 light-years across, this object sits in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
According to Bill: "This image of LBN 471 was captured over the course of 45 hours using broadband RGBHaSIIOIII filters under Bortle 3 skies in the Sierra Nevada. The dataset includes 3 hours of RGB data for star color and 42 hours of narrowband filters for the faint nebula. Processing was performed using PixInsight."
Details:
Telescope: Stellarvue 130T APO Refractor at f/6
Camera: QHY268m (monochrome CMOS)
Filters: Astrodon LRGBHaSIIOIII (1x1 binning)
Mount: Astro-Physics Mach1 GTO
Guiding: Off-Axis Guider with QHY5L-II
Acquisition Software: NINA
Processing Software: PixInsight (GraXpert, SPCC, StarX, NoiseX, BlurX, Curves, PixelMath)
Image Credit: W.D. Brown
Acquisition Date: December 2024
Location: Arnold, California, USA
References:
AstroBin. (n.d.). AstroBin. https://app.astrobin.com/i/wunt8h
