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NGC 7822 and LBN 775, Mike Hamende
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NGC 7822 and LBN 775

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NGC 7822 and LBN 775, Mike Hamende
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NGC 7822 and LBN 775

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Description

The combination of these two objects is often referred to as the 'Question Mark Nebula' although I've opted to leave it on its side for the sake of maximizing the use of screen real estate.  See the revisions for that question mark orientation.

It has been nearly a month since my last upload. Like many of you I've been fighting clouds and haze and smoke and equipment issues.  I've actually had 7 cloudless nights and collected more than 36 hours of data on this target although I only kept about 12 hours due to poor transparency and the occasional guiding issues.  My broken HEQ5 is due back from skywatcher tomorrow and I have to applaud the effort of my TINY AZ-GTi supporting probably 12 lbs of gear and 10lbs of counterweight while maintaining ~2.0 arcseconds of accuracy.

The stars on the edges and corner are a bit wonky as I stacked multiple nights of data while I was experimenting with reducer/flattener distance.  At this point I'm happy with where it ended up and I'm trying to obsess less about details like that.  I'm trying to appreciate images as a whole rather than pixel peeping. We'll see how long that lasts.

Comments

Revisions

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  • Final
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E

Description: Closer. I'm having trouble finding the right colors.

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F

Description: Ok last revision for now. The colors are much closer to where I want. I was simply pushing them too far before.

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Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 7822 and LBN 775, Mike Hamende