Messier 24 (Small Sagittarius Star Cloud) from Telescope Live AUS-2-CMOS
From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is Telescope Live with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Australia and Spain. One of the data sets I received, was HSO data from the star cloud Messier 24, located in the constellation Sagittarius.
Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:
The images were taken with the following equipment:
| Location | Heaven’s mirror Observatory, Australia |
| Telescope | Takahashi FSQ-106ED |
| Focal length [mm] | 382 |
| Focal ratio | 3.6 |
| Mount | Paramount MX+ |
| Camera | QHY 600M Pro |
| Filter | H:S:O |
| Exposure time [min] | 90:50:50 |
| Resolution | 1.46″/px |
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