LDN 1355 (The helping Hand)
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 data from the dark nebula LDN 1355 located in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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 (SPA-1 CCD, Telescope Live):
| Location | IC Observatory, Spain |
| Telescope | Takahashi FSQ-106ED |
| Focal length [mm] | 390 |
| Focal ratio | 3.6 |
| Mount | Paramount MX+ |
| Camera | QHY 600M Pro |
| Filter | L:R:G:B |
| Exposure time [min] | 120:120:120:140 |
| Resolution | 2.02″/px |
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