Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6989  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula
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NGC 7000: The North America Nebula, Dan R
NGC 7000: The North America Nebula
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NGC 7000: The North America Nebula

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NGC 7000: The North America Nebula, Dan R
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NGC 7000: The North America Nebula

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Acquisition Details:
  • Thursday 14th Sep 23:30 - Friday 15th Sep 05:20)
  • Lights: 62 x ISO 1600 at 300 seconds
  • Darks: 30
  • Flats: 30
  • Bias: 70
  • Bortle 6 Skies


Now the nights are started to get a bit longer I thought I'd push to get as much integration on this as I could, this lead to having to discard three subs due to the sunrise creeping into frame and washing out the details. Due to the early sunrise, I was able to catch some good flats without the need of a flats panel but this also meant my dark frames had to be taken in the garage as no matter what I tried, sunlight kept finding its way onto the Canon's sensor. Luckily the garage kept a relatively stable temperature from the night so hopefully they weren't affected too much by any temperature discrepancies.

Autoguiding errors tended to hover between 0.44" - 0.98" which I was quite happy with. From where I'm situated, this was my first Southern-facing target so I had a lot of light pollution to face and a close-by streetlight, the L-Enhance filter did a good job keeping it out and whilst undoubtedly some of it made it into the final image, I believe it's unnoticeable unless pixel-peeping.

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NGC 7000: The North America Nebula, Dan R