NGC 2244 The Rosette Nebula
NGC 2244 – The Rosette Nebula
With only a couple days clear all winter in 2023-24, I finally got a window of taking images and captured NGC 2244 which is the Rosette Nebula. NGC 2244 is actually the inner star cluster found within, showing hot blue new stars springing to life.
Equipment
Telescope: Celestron RASA 11 (620mm focal @ f/2.2)
Filters: Astronomik MaxFR 50x50mm Square SHO & Deep Sky RGB
Main Camera: ZWO ASI 6200mm-pro Monochrome
Tilt & BackFocus Adjuster: ASG Photon Cage
Mount: iOptron CEM 120EC
Guide Scope: William Optics 50mm Uniguide
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290mm-mini
Location
Location: Pendleton, Oregon
Observatory: NexDome 2.4m Automated
Bortle: 3
Long & Lat: 45.67N, -118.79 W
Shoot Parameters
Date: February 14th, 17th, 24th
R: 27 x 5 seconds
G: 27 x 5 seconds
B: 19 x 5 seconds
Ha: 41 x 300 seconds
Oiii: 102 x 300 seconds
Sii: 48 x 300 seconds
Total Integration time ~16 hrs
Calibration Bias: 20
Calibration Dark: 20
Calibration Flats: 25 for each filter
Gain: 100
Cooling: -10
Processing Software: Captured with NINA, Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor, Processed in PixInsight
