The North America nebula complex mosaic (Christoph Lichtblau)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 56 Cyg · 57 Cyg · 62 Cyg · 62 ksi Cyg · B349 · B353 · B355 · B358 · HD198237 · HD198414 · HD198479 · HD198480 · HD198681 · HD198690 · HD198896 · HD198931 · HD199021 · HD199069 · HD199098 · HD199099 · HD199137 · HD199138 · HD199178 · HD199206 · HD199312 · HD199355 · HD199373 · HD199395 · HD199416 · HD199417 · And 63 more.

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Finally I could finish a project which I began last year. The help of a new mosaic software made possible, what I could not achieve with pixinsight. I used the "image composite editor", which is free for the first time and was really astonished how good and fast it works. I used three optics to expose the subs. My edge 11 in hyperstar mode for the colors and my Megrez Apo and my lacerta newton for the luminance data. The lacerta mostly for the inner parts for more definition. The flaw of doing so is the starshape result, which means that the inner stars have spikes, while the outer ones have not. Tried to fix that with some additional generated spikes, but it didn' t work consequently. Sorry for that. Overall, I am very happy with the endresult and that I have found a new and very useful new software for managing mosaics. Hope you like it too..

luminace mosaic 8 parts
colors mosaic 9 parts

Cheers, Christoph

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	6333531
PixInsight job	CV74QHFZWBY2DPMYWQHLCJDFX6URQ4CC
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h56m27s.84
RA (top/left)	21h06m13s.35
RA (top/right)	20h45m24s.50
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m18s.21
RA (bottom/left)	21h06m55s.87

Dec (center)	+44°05′09″.5
Dec (top/left)	+45°56′04″.1
Dec (top/right)	+45°41′03″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°11′19″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°25′25″.0

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