NGC 188 (RGB) (Linda)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD3065 · HD4710 · NGC 188 · PGC 3005

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NGC 188 (RGB)

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NGC 188 (RGB)

This was a test target to continue work on tilt. By the hocus focus numbers the tilt should be within the critical focus zone now and I think it looks pretty good by visual inspection. Here's hoping I don't feel the need to try to improve things further and fubar it all.

This was kind of an odd target to pick. Given the moon I wanted a cluster and I also wanted one I could image all night. It turns out there aren't many options for that this time of year at my latitude. I ended up choosing this open cluster in Cepheus which spent the night under the pole star so I caught it the opposite season of when it would be optimally placed. But it was visible all night, if only 32-35 degrees above the horizon. It served its purpose for testing though. I'm ready to turn the rig loose on galaxies and nebulae now!

Processing was simple:
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dynamic crop
DBE
blurXterminator
noseXterminator
GHS
curves (contrast and just a bit of a color boost (was just a bit conservative in GHS))
unsharp mask (very mild sharpening)

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7460877
PixInsight job	098UL87VLBNET766T4JST7EWDJHDO9EX
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h47m38s.727
RA (top/left)	01h03m18s.906
RA (top/right)	01h07m03s.637
RA (bottom/right)	00h27m55s.720
RA (bottom/left)	00h32m14s.304

Dec (center)	+85°15′09″.27
Dec (top/left)	+84°41′38″.21
Dec (top/right)	+85°47′16″.30
Dec (bottom/right)	+85°46′59″.49
Dec (bottom/left)	+84°41′24″.78

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