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Harshwardhan Pathak
Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia
08/18/2023
08:44 pm

Equipment Details:

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ - 106ED

Camera: QHY 600M Pro

Mount: Paramount MX +

Astrodon Filters

Post-processing Details:

Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop

Image Details:

It's my first mosaic of Corona Australis molecular cloud. Taken in Multiple night sessions between 14 Aug - 18 Aug 2023 of a total of 13 hours of integration, it's a two Panel Mosaic that covers the whole Corona Australis, a dark molecular cloud.
Epsilon Coronae Australis is the brightest example of a W Ursae Majoris variable in the southern sky. Lying alongside the Milky Way, Corona Australis contains one of the closest star-forming regions to the Solar System—a dusty dark nebula known as the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, lying about 430 light years away.