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Community photo entitled  by Emil Andronic on 12/15/2022 at Hemel Hempstead, UK

On 12/15/2022 by Emil Andronic| Hemel Hempstead, UK

Sharpless 88 or Sh 2-88 is a region including the diffuse nebula Sh 2-88A and the two compact knots Sh 2-88B1 and Sh 2-88B2, all of which are associated with Vulpecula OB1.
I really like imaging targets that are very often missed by the amateur astrophotographers and this one is surely one of them with only a few images on the world wide web.
With a lot of time spent shooting it and a lot of patience processing the photo, SH2-88 becomes a very photogenic target and I hope to inspire more amateur astrophotographers to point their telescopes towards it.
I'm really happy with my result and I hope that you like it too.

To capture the photo I used the following equipment:
Mount: StellarDrive GT6
AstroTech 106LE with upgraded Moonlite focuser
TSFlat 2" field flattener
ASI294MM Pro Cmos camera, cooled at - 15°C
8x1.25" ZWO USB filterwheel
Chroma 1.25" RGB and Chroma 1.25" 3nm SHO filters
Qhyccd QHY5L-IIM guide camera
OpticStar AR90 as guidescope
Qhyccd Polemaster

Software used:
Eqmod, SGP - Sequence Generator Pro, PHD2, Stellarium, SharpCap for polar alignment

Date: 10.10.2022 to 15.12.2022

Location: Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, bortle 5

Frames:
Ha: 51x300sec and 17x600sec Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30
Oiii: 75x600sec Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30
Sii: 55x600sec Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30
Red: 10x60sec; Green: 10x60sec; Blue: 10x60sec; Bin 2x2, Gain 125 Offset 30

Total integration time 29 hours and 15 minutes

Stacked and calibrated in AstroPixel Processor and processed in Pixinsight (with help from Star Xterminator and Noise Xterminator) and Photoshop CC 2022