NGC3718, NGC3729 and Hickson 56 in LRGB (Cfosterstars)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: NGC 3718 · NGC 3729

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NGC3718, NGC3729 and Hickson 56 in LRGB

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NGC3718, NGC3729 and Hickson 56 in LRGB

I did not get my first scope until I turned 50. I always wanted a big scope but never could afford one. When I finally got my first scope, I really knew nothing except for the adds in magazines. I got a used Meade LX200 10" ACF SCT. I was so excited and had lots of fun visually - but when I tried to do AP - I found I had the wrong scope with the wrong camera on the wrong mount. Its been many years and even more dollars later. When I got my 115mm EON APO and a ASI1600MM-C camera on an HDX110 mount, I could really start getting good repeatable imaging. I always want to resurrect my SCT and have slowly been bringing it back into shape. I deforked it and even removed the corrector to clean the main mirror that had a number of bad water spots on it and a very dirty secondary. I went through several new focusers options over the years but finally got a very nice feathertouch focuser with an optec motor so I can now do good autofocus. I have done a good start on columation, but I have not yet got metaguiding working to do a really good job for columation. However, its about as good as I ever really had it columated. So I am finally doing my first real imaging with it for over 3 years. I am starting with a galaxy since that is what the long focal length is good for. I picked NGC 3718 since it has nice tidal tails and several smaller clusters of galaxies in the same frame including Hickson 56.

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RA (center)	11h33m05s.508
RA (top/left)	11h31m59s.820
RA (top/right)	11h34m13s.325
RA (bottom/right)	11h34m12s.521
RA (bottom/left)	11h31m57s.290

Dec (center)	+52°59′58″.50
Dec (top/left)	+52°46′24″.48
Dec (top/right)	+52°46′33″.80
Dec (bottom/right)	+53°13′30″.29
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°13′21″.50

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