PaGo 1 (Patchick-Goodhew 1)
This is a joint discovery with expert galactic prospector Dana Patchick. This is the first ever image taken. It is believed to be a possible planetary nebula, but getting confirmation of this via spectroscopy is going to be challenging as it is so faint. Capturing this required almost 60 hours of data shot at bin 4x4. Processing was problematic in terms of separating the nebula from faint gradients. Luckily my two scopes are oriented 180 degrees from each other to avoid the cameras colliding during autofocus. This made it possible to detect the gradients by processing the data from each scope separately and then comparing the two images. Background subtraction was used to stretch the faint signal before re-adding the background.
TARGET
Nomenclature: PaGo 1, Patchick-Goodhew 1, PN G060.7+48.9, Pa J1601.8+3804
Right Ascension: 16:01:24
Declination:  +38:02:56
Size: 15 arc min
Discovery: Peter Goodhew and Dana Patchick on 13 July 2020
EQUIPMENT USED
Twin APM TMB LZOS 152 refractors
10Micron GM2000 HPS mount
Twin QSI6120 CCD cameras
Astrodon filters
IMAGE CAPTURE
5nm H-Alpha: 21 x1800 bin 2x2, 59x1800 bin 4x4
3nm OIII: 54 x1800 bin 4x4
Red: 17x300 bin 1x1
Green: 18x300 bin 1x1
Blue: 20x300 bin 1x1
Total integration: 74.4 hours
Pixel scale: 0.533 arcsec/pixel
Field radius: 0.370 degrees
Capture dates: 21 June - 13 July 2020
Capture location:  Fregenal de la Sierra, Spain
IMAGE PROCESSING
Pre-processing: CCDStack2
Post-processing: Photoshop CS2