The Great Lacerta Nebula SH2-126 SPA-1

The Great Lacerta Nebula SH2-126 SPA-1
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The Great Lacerta Nebula SH2-126 SPA-1

Thanks again for Telescope Live....clouds for the next week! Here's an image of the Great Lacerta Nebula taken with the SPA-1 scope and their old CCD camera (can't wait to get some CMOS). It's about 1,200 light-years from Earth and the field radius of this image is about 3 1/2 degrees. It amazes me that all this hydrogen gas is excited by the star 10 Lacertae ( blue star at the center of the FOV ).
I did take the orientation from Jarmo Ruuth's APOD ( VERY NICE ) of this object from October 2022....hope you don't mind.
Hope ya like it!
Tom
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
SPA-1 Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
FLI PL 16803
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
IC Astronomy Observatory, Spain
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
June-November 2022
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
Astrodon LRGB 2GEN, 3nm H-alpha
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
Pixinsight
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Credits
SPA-1 Telescope Live / Tom Peter
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