Data Collected on the following nights.
Night 01 01/01/2025
Oiii Filter 30 x 300s = 2hous 30 minutes
Red Filter 61 x 60s = 1 hour 1 minute
Night 02 02/01/2025
Oiii Filter 24 x 300s = 2 hours
Night 03 03/01/2025
Blue Filter 72 x 60s = 1 hour 12 minutes
Green Filter 58 x 60s = 58 minutes
Night 04 15/01/2025
Ha Filter 67 x 300s = 5 hours 35 minutes
Night 05 16/01/2025
Oiii Filter 39 x 300s = 3 hours 15 minutes
Night 06 29/01/2025
Sii Filter 51 x 300s = 4 hours 15 minutes
Night 07 04/02/2025
Sii Filter 63 x 300s = 5 hours 15 minutes
Night 08 09/03/2025
Sii Filter 5 x 300s – 25 minutes
Night 09 12/03/2025
Sii Filter 12 x 300s = 1 hour
Night 10 14/03/2025
Sii Filter 24 x 300s = 2 hours
Night 11 18/03/2025
Ha Filter 36 x 300s = 3 hours
Night 12 20/03/2025
Oiii Filter 42 x 300s = 3 hours 30 minutes
Night 13 24/03/2025
Oiii Filter 34 x 300s = 2 hours 50 minutes
Night 14 28/03/2025
Oiii Filter 23 x 300s = 1 hour 55 minutes
Night 15 30/03/2025
Blue Filter 43 x 60s = 43 minutes
Green Filter 65 x 60s = 1 hour 5 minutes
Red Filter 52 x 60s = 52 minutes
Night 16 31/03/2025
Blue Filter 16 x 60s = 16 minutes
Red Filter 17 x 60s = 17 minutes
Sii Filter 15 x 300s = 1 hour 15 minutes
Night 17 01/04/2025
Sii Filter 20 x 300s = 1 hour 40 minutes
Night 18 05/04/2025
Ha Filter 15 x 300s = 1 hour 15 minutes
Sii Filter 2 x 300s = 10 minutes
Night 19 06/04/2025
Ha Filter 22 x 300s = 1 hour 50 minutes
Night 20 07/04/2025
Ha Filter 21 x 300s = 2 hours
Night 21 08/04/2025
Ha Filter 19 x 300s = 1 hour 35 minutes
Night 22 09/04/2025
Ha Filter 25 x 300s = 2 hours 5 minutes
Total of 54 hours of usable data.
Equipment:
Telescope: Askar FRA600 108 mm f/5.6 Quintuplet APO Astrograph (600mm focal length)
Reducer: Askar f/3.9 Full Frame 0.7x reducer (reduces to 420mm focal length)
Filter Wheel: ZWO V2 7 x 36mm Electronic Filter Wheel (EFW)
Focuser: ZWO Electron Automatic Focuser (EAF) 5v
Control: ZWO ASIair Plus 256 g Wireless Astrophotography Controller
Main Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro USB Cooled Mono Camera
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini USB 2.0 Mono Camera
Guide scope: William Optics 50mm with 1.25" RotoLock (red)
Mounting Plate: Askar Losmandy Style 300mm Dovetail
Filters: Chroma 3nm 36mm Sii/Ha/Oiii
Filters: Chroma Luminance/Red/Green/Blue
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R PRO
Power: Jackery Explorer 1000 v2 Portable Power Station
Interface: Apple iPad Pro 11
Flat Panel: Deep Sky Dad Flat Field Panel (FP2)
Dew Heater: Lynx Astro Dew Heater for Guide Scope
Dew Heater: Lynx Astro Dew Heater for Main Scope
Processing: PixInsight
Every frame I captured went through a visual check using Blink in PixInsight. Anything that passed got a second round of testing with SubframeSelector. Only the cleanest, sharpest data made it into this final image of the Jellyfish Nebula.
And hey, let’s not forget the 25–35 hours of data that didn’t make the cut — rejected, deleted, but still part of the journey. It’s all part of the process!