The Crab in 2023
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To start the new year, I imaged the first item in the Messier catalog on the first day of the year. Coincidentally, M1 was the first deep space object and nebula I photographed. This is a stack of several nights of 5-minute exposures that sum to just over seven hours of integration time.
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Image details
| Telescope: | Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 | |
| Length: | 1645mm | |
| Aperture: | 235mm | |
| F-stop: | f/7.0 | |
| Sessions: | 3 | |
| Captured: | 2022-12-14 to 2023-01-02 | |
| Lights: | 86 | |
| Exposure: | 300 | |
| Total exposure: | 7 h | |
| Ra: | 5h 34m 33.5s | |
| Dec: | +22° 03' 14.072 | |
| Size: | 26.114 x 18.992 arcmin | |
| Radius: | 0.269 deg | |
| Scale: | 0.285 arcsec/pixel |
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