Hoegaarden Astronomy & Photography
This week the JWST reached it’s final destination, the 2nd Lagrange point, where he will turn ellipses as long as fuel allows.
It took a lot “analysis” to be sure of the identification, but I could image the telescope last night. The apparent magnitude was pretty low, estimated around mag. 17.0
At the upper left of the object is a small triangle of stars, with a fourth weaker star in the triangle. This star is listed as magnitude 16,5.
FITT grey image stacked 120mm Esprit F7
Only 44 minutes of exposure, the nebula is clearly imaged. However I don’t like it too much, as the Gain settings wasn’t OK I suspect something went wrong during processing.
The background was way too noisy, even for 44 minutes, and as a result has been made too dark to remove some of the color noise. Also sharpening at some point was too much.
Lots of sensor real estate is waisted with this object being soo small. Probably better to give it a try at a longer focal lenght.
It’s really mysterious to see the results of a star exploding a millenium ago.
FWIW
Esprit 120mm F/7 ASI2600mc Gain 0 EQ8 NUC AstroPixelprocessor and Photoshop Elements
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