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Witch Head Nebula with Rigel, Joshua Kovach
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Witch Head Nebula with Rigel

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Witch Head Nebula with Rigel, Joshua Kovach
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Witch Head Nebula with Rigel

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I feel like the last few targets of mine have been getting harder and harder. I'm not terribly happy with how this one turned out, and it's been really difficult to process it because of the noise and my constantly blown out stars. I'm hoping my new cooled astrocamera will help bring some joy back to the hobby.

I just could not tame Rigel, and maybe it's due to the low integration time, or maybe the seeing just wasn't great. I apparently also couldn't make up my mind on an exposure time for this target, so it's a mosaic of 150s, 120s, 60s, and 10s, and even then I still can't keep my stars from getting messed up.

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