NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula in Cassiopeia, nicknamed the Pac-Man Nebula for its shape created by a dark dust lane. It's an H II region where new stars are forming.

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Light Filter. Its "mouth," which gives it the Pac-Man nickname, is a thick lane of dark dust blocking the light of the glowing gas behind it.

Good Thursday morning. Weather improved yesterday evening so was able to set up the s50. Set the telescope to see #NGC281 #ThePacmanNebula again. These images are made up of 672 frames at 20 second duration exposures - 3 hours and 43 minutes total. It is a […]

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NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - telescope processed image with Moon and Sky Light filter. With the denoising the image did come out nice. More detail than the no filter option.

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - telescope processed image with no filter. Not even close to the level of detail of the logger images.

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - telescope processed image with LP filter. Most detail of the nebula compared to the other 2 option. Still a more reddish tint to the image.

Continuing with the Moon and Sky Light Filter vs No Filter vs LP Filter, still using #NGC281 #ThePacmanNebula as our subject, processed images below. Places of images in my opinion - 1st - LP Filter, 2nd - Moon and Skylight Filter, 3rd -No Filter. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - unprocessed image with Moon and Sky Filter. This seems to be just slightly better than the no filter option. I can’t say it’s halfway to the LP either.

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - unprocessed image without filters. The worst of the 3 options.

NGC 281 The Pac-Man Nebula - unprocessed image with LP filter. Definitely the best though it has a more reddish tint to it.

Another test for the Moon and Skylight Filter vs No Filter vs LP Onboard filter on the s50. Using #NGC281 #ThePacmanNebula as the target. All images roughly the same duration. No question the onboard LP filter gets the most details. All these images are […]

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NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - telescope processed image without LP filter.

NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - unprocessed image without LP filter.

NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - telescope processed image with LP filter.

NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - unprocessed image with LP filter.

When you are imagining nebulas the s50 normally has the Light Pollution (LP) filter on. I wondered what the results would be with it off. Here is observations of #NGC281 #ThePacmanNebula with and without the LP filter. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur

NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - telescope processed image. NGC 281 is an emission nebula in Cassiopeia nicknamed the "Pacman Nebula" due to a dark dust lane that makes it resemble the classic arcade character.

NGC 281 The Pacman Nebula - unprocessed image. This star-forming region is home to Bok globules (dark, dense cosmic dust clouds) that are resisting powerful radiation from hot, massive, young stars.

Next of the planned observation, went back to #NGC281 #ThePacmanNebula. #seestar #S50 #space #astronomy #amateur