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Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
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Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822

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Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822

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Description

In September I received my first monochrome camera, the ASI2600MM Pro.  I wanted to try things out on a target that would be up all night so I found NGC7822.  What started as a test target on something I hadn't heard about turned into a reasonably big (for me) side project.

This DSO has some very interesting structure.  And when I learned a common name is "Question Mark Nebula" I just had to give it a shot.  I initially built a 3 panel mosaic in Ha to frame the whole thing but I couldn't leave it alone!  So I set out to fill in S2 and O3 while capturing data for other projects.  All while learning about the monochrome world and tuning my setup to address all the new problems that cropped up.

I haven't done this object justice with only 3 hours each filter on each panel.  In fact, ultimately I tossed the 3rd panel which has the "dot" for the question mark since the data was not as good as the rest of the panels.  But what I salvaged looks cool to me and I hope to spend some more time on it next season with more experience under my belt.

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  • Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
    Original
  • Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
    B
  • Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
    C
  • Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
    D
  • Final
    Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam
    E

C

Description: Bottom panel is troublesome but I think it'll require more data to fix. Not willing to do that right now so it is what it is for now.

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Question Mark Nebula, NGC7822, jewzaam