NGC 6188: The Fighting Dragons of Ara
I shot this over two nights in September last year. The first night, although I later found out that the stars had slight, constant trails in every frame. I couldn't determine what was the problem at the time, so I imaged the Dragons again the next night. Whilst I was setting up, I had discovered that one of my cables was tugging on my rig, hence causing the trails. After I fixed that, the stars were fine.
Because of this, I initially didn't edit the data from the first night as I couldn't figure out a way to reduce the trails, so I only edited the data I shot on the second night. All that changed once BlurXTerminator came out late last year. When I got it, I re-stacked both datasets and combined them with WBPP. I am very glad that I didn't delete the first night's dataset as BlurXTerminator did an amazing job at reducing the trails. It just goes to show you should always save your bad data for a rainy day!
I am hoping to try and shoot this majestic area of the night sky again soon, as I always think of The Legend of Zelda games whenever I see these fighting dragons.
EXIF
Night 1
24 x 2 min
f/4.5
4000 ISO
Night 2
82 x 1 min
f/4.5
6400 ISO
Both Nights
Canon 6Da
Radian 61
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
ZWO ASIAIR Pro
ZWO ASI120mm Mini
ZWO 30mm f/4 Mini Guidescope
PixInsight, Lightroom and Photoshop
Bortle 5
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