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Soul Nebula, Kevin Festini
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Soul Nebula

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Soul Nebula

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IC1848

Not the best or longest project but I like it because it represents overcoming some pretty nasty gremlins in the imaging train.

Recently got a Baader Coma Corrector for the F/5 Newtonian but like everything in astrophotography, that corrected the stars but introduced some other problems. Long story short, the corrector was catching lots of stray reflections from the primary tube and draw tube when taking flats which introduced some peculiar bright halo right in the center of the stacked image. 

Flocked the entire primary and draw tube and that seems to have resolved the issue.

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Soul Nebula, Kevin Festini