North America Nebula

20. August 2020 - Wichtrach, Bern
Version 1 (edited on 21. August 2020)

The North America Nebula was the first image taken with the Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II (200mm@f/4.5). Unfortunately, the lens creates a lot of aberration at f/2.8 that also extends quite far into the center of the image. At f/4.5 there is still aberration in the corners, but after cropping its barley noticeable. The iOptron SkyGuider Pro performed quite good, with only minimal elongated stars.

Exposure Time

36 x 124 sISO 1600RGB
1 h 14 min 24 s

Calibration

Center (RA, DEC) 313.9734, 43.6045
Size 9.277 × 6.320 deg
Radius 5.612 deg
Avg. Distance to Moon 116.78 deg
Avg. Moon phase
4.93 %

Objects in picture

Software

  • Lightroom
  • PixInsight