The Flying Bat and Squid Nebulae update

Flying Bat, Sh2-129, and Squid Nebulae, Ou 4, in Cephus. This has been a long term project started last fall. Updated with another night's data. About 2/3 of the data is from Bad Wolf Ranch under Bortle 4 skies, and 11 hours of #NBOSC dataunder Bortle 7 Austin Skies. 4 hours of broadband color data was used for star colors. In total 33 hours of exposures on 2024-10-10 to 2045-07-30, rendered in an HOO palate.

WO RedCat 250/51mm, stars UV/IR, nebulosity L-Ultimate dual NB filter, ASI533 MC camera, ASIAIR Plus controller, AM5N mount. 322 5' exposures stacked and processed in PixInsight with RC-Astro and SetiAstro tools. Final exp and crop in Affinity Photo

Content created: 2025-07-31 and last modified: 2025-08-07

     

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