Auriga Widefield (Jack Groves)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 14 Aur · 16 Aur · 17 AR Aur · 18 Aur · 19 Aur · 24 Aur · 24 phi Aur · AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · HD33503 · HD34030 · HD34333 · HD34425 · HD34452 · HD34477 · HD34576 · HD34590 · HD34626 · HD34761 · HD35032 · HD35132 · HD35202 · HD35295 · HD35314 · HD35327 · HD35345 · HD35519 · HD35520 · HD35546 · HD35619 · And 39 more.

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Auriga Widefield

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Auriga Widefield

I have neglected using my William Optics RedCat 51 for over 2 years now. It was my first telescope and a brilliant introduction into this hobby. I have wanted to get this thing up and running again and use my 2600mm with it in anticipation of more frequent use later this year when some of the objects more suited to widefield imaging become visible again.

I started the capture of the Ha data during the full moon phase. I am limited to roughly 6 hours of imaging time on the Auriga region per night from my backyard location and so only captured just over 2 nights worth of Ha data. My RGB acquisition was plagued by high clouds and random issues with the ASIAIR that caused my mount to slew to random areas of the sky for reasons I am still not sure of. While the ASIAIR has been a good way for me to get into this hobby I am growing frustrated with it's instability, poor wifi, and inability to use non-ZWO products. I hope to get a mini PC soon to run N.I.N.A with this setup.

Overall I am pleased with this image for such a relatively short integration. I really hope to use the RedCat more again as it is a very reliable and well built telescope.

I processed this HaRGB data using my normal workflow which includes using the Masked Stretch process for my initial stretch. I really find this method preserves star colors nicely and does not bloat stars in the way that Histogram Transformation does for me.

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RA (center)	05h20m37s.97
RA (top/left)	05h20m18s.12
RA (top/right)	05h08m07s.51
RA (bottom/right)	05h20m54s.62
RA (bottom/left)	05h33m32s.42

Dec (center)	+34°22′36″.6
Dec (top/left)	+37°19′27″.9
Dec (top/right)	+32°59′37″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°25′54″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°40′30″.4

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