M 46

Captured and Processed by Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal

Astrophotography information

Astrophotography Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal
Observing location Bandarban, Lama (21.740447,92.168846)
Exposure time 60 min.
Telescope Unistellar eQuinox 1 (Ashvin 1), 114 / 450 mm
Camera Sony IMX224, 1.27 Mpx
Field of view (resolution) 0.61° × 0.46° (1.72 arcsec)
Image processing Md Shahadat Hossain Shahal
Image processing method 1. Stack
2. Background extraction
3. Plate solve
4. SPCC
5. Star removal
5. Stretching
7. Star re-composition
8. Denoising
9. Sharpening
10. HDR processing for galaxy core.
11. Masked stretching.

Astrophysical information

Object type Star Cluster
Constellation Puppis, the Stern
Distance 5.4 Kly
Angular size 27 arcmin
Physical size 30 ly
Apparent magnitude 6.1