Equipment
Telescope
Astro-Physics Stowaway 92mm f/5.3
Camera
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Mount
ZWO AM5
Filters
Chroma Blue 36 mm
Chroma Green 36 mm
Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 36 mm
Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 36 mm
Chroma Red 36 mm
Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 36 mm
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Objects
LDN 908
LDN 909
LDN 910
LDN 913
LBN 298
LBN 301
LBN 303
LBN 310
LBN 314
LBN 325
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Description
W63, also known as G82.2+5.3, is a large, faint supernova remnant (SNR) located in the constellation Cygnus, named after its listing in the Westerhout radio catalog. It appears as a faint, oval shell of Oxygen III (OIII) emission, requiring long exposures to observe, and is roughly 10,000 light-years away.
I took on the challenge to image this ridiculously faint SNR from my Bortle 6 home and I ruthlessly tossed most of the subs due to light pollution or moon or just bad data and ended up with 30 hours of usable OIII and 25 or so hours of Ha and SIII combined.
Processing this one was a hairball! I used both SHO and HOO and blended and created a lum for bringing out fine OIII details.