Skymonsters

Astrophotography by Nicola Montecchiari

M4 & VdB104

Dust Cloud M4 & VdB104
Date/Place2009-05-23 at Farm Hakos, Namibia
CoordinatesAR 16h 22m 04s DEC -25° 57'43"
InstrumentTakahashi FSQ85ED
CameraModified 450D
IntegrationStack of 13x600sec. frames at ISO800. Preprocessing with IRIS, stack and stretch with PICTools, final adjustments with PixInsight LE.
CommentI underestimated the beauty of this region, it would probably help to double the integration time, with dithering too. I had to work with SGBNR in order to reduce the residual noise.