Polaris and The Surrounding Integrated Flux Nebula
Polaris and The Surrounding Integrated Flux Nebula
This is my rendition of the Pro Data Set of Polaris taken with the SPA-1, 10cm F3.6 Takahashi FSQ-106ED/FLI PL 16803, located at the IC Astronomy in Oria, Almeria, Spain. There's almost 16 hours of LRGB data @600s/frame. I must admit, until I processed this image, I had NO IDEA there was such an abundance of Integrated Flux Nebula surrounding Polaris.
Anyway, hope ya like it!
Tom
Anyway, hope ya like it!
Tom
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope
SPA-1 Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera
FLI PL 16803
Location
IC Astronomy, Oria, Almeria, Spain
Date of observation
19 July 2021
Filters
Astrodon 50mm LRGB 2GEN
Processing
Pixinsight, PS
Credits
Data Obtained by Marco Rocchetto
Comments
You got really nice details in the IFN! However, I think you got the overall colour balance drifting too much towards blue. Polaris is a yellow supergiant of spectral type Ib so white-yellow and not blue.