LBN 471 & SH2-132 - The Lion Nebula (F. Londe)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD211820 · HD211853 · HD211982 · HD239919 · LBN 471 · LBN 473 · LDN 1161 · Sh2-132

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LBN 471 & SH2-132 - The Lion Nebula

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The Lion Nebula is a very faint nebula and it is composed of fluorescent oxygen & hydrogen plasma.
It is amazing the way the dark dust is silhouetted on the glowing gas provide details of the lion’s face,
and how wild the lion’s head and shoulders are orange (Ha and O3 emissions).

The SH2-132 was tough to capture:
between the clouds, bad seeing , the high humidity, & issues with the meridian flip
It’s very high in the sky and the first two nights I had ASIAIR handle the flip but I lost all my images after that
(Guiding Went Off the Rails), so the following nights I had to stop the mount tracking each night ,
wait until the meridian flip, then instead starting to image again, I played with my ASIAIR settings.
It paid off because of the unsuccessful first 2 nights, it was not a 100% lost because I learned something new,
I figured out what I was missing in the settings for ASIAIR,
anyway I am very pleased with the results,

Clear Skies,

Fernando

Stats:
Friday 20, Temperature 60 °F - CLOUDS excellent 9% - SEEING bad 40% - WIND excellent 5 mph - HUMIDITY bad 62% - DEW POINT 47 °F
Saturday 21, Temperature 55 °F - CLOUDS excellent 7% - SEEING bad 30% - WIND excellent 9 mph - HUMIDITY bad 68% - DEW POINT 54 °F
Sunday 22, Temperature 59 °F - CLOUDS excellent 6% - SEEING bad 40% - WIND excellent 7 mph - HUMIDITY bad 61%- DEW POINT 45 °F
Tuesday 24, Temperature 57 °F - CLOUDS excellent 5% - SEEING bad 30% - WIND excellent 8 mph - HUMIDITY bad 64% - DEW POINT 49 °F

Guiding Stats
average before meridian flip
RA 0.48"
DEC 0.39"

Original
B
Final
C

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RA (center)	22h18m49s.438
RA (top/left)	22h17m12s.184
RA (top/right)	22h20m14s.573
RA (bottom/right)	22h20m28s.549
RA (bottom/left)	22h17m22s.658

Dec (center)	+56°07′51″.68
Dec (top/left)	+55°47′56″.36
Dec (top/right)	+55°46′53″.19
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°27′42″.72
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°28′48″.24

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