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Fighting Dragons and Cosmic Egg, Joel Donovan
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Fighting Dragons and Cosmic Egg

Fighting Dragons and Cosmic Egg, Joel Donovan
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Fighting Dragons and Cosmic Egg

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Description

One of my absolute favourite targets is NGC6188, otherwise known as the Fighting Dragons of Ara.I absolutely love the quality of the images I get from my Esprit 120, however the field of view offered by it doesn't allow me to get the so called "dragon egg" that sits just below the dragons.  So I thought this would be a great opportunity to attempt my first mosaic (albeit a simple 2x1).Images were taken over several nights during April and May.

Total imaging time for this project was 28.75hrs. 

Registering, stacking and mosaic done using Astro Pixel Processor.
Processed, combined and edited using PixInsight.

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Fighting Dragons and Cosmic Egg, Joel Donovan