Markarian Chain, Dr.Frankenkeim

Markarian Chain

Markarian Chain, Dr.Frankenkeim

Markarian Chain

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I had a few issues taking this picture. Since I only have a very limited view of the sky, I usually have to take exposures over multiple nights. The reframing gave me some trouble since the SGP has no goto and the manual Dec adjustment is a major paint point for me. Trying to reframe this target manually over three nights in a red zone was taking much more time than I wanted (on the bright side I now know where to find it).

Guiding was also very poor as you can see in the oval star shapes. I am still not sure why my guiding results are not as good as what I see from other that are using the SGP.

This was also the first time that I saw very obvious walking pattern noise in the final stack, which I somewhat addressed in post, but I still think that it's very noticeable.

Since I have an older uncooled DSLR I stopped taking darks which might be why.

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Markarian Chain, Dr.Frankenkeim