Dust clouds of Cassiopeia (Sendhil Chinnasamy)

Dust clouds of Cassiopeia

Back to widefield imaging in about 5 months. Ended up selling my Mach1 to a local friend and setup my 106 setup on the AP900.

I had setup this target back in January after scrubbing Nina's SkyAtlas for a few hours. Forgot about it as it was going to come up after March - April timeframe and shifted my focus on getting the RCOS setup going at the obs.

After deciding to image something with the 106, remembered that this was there and saw it was clearing the horizon after 1am and started to run with it. My first half was Blue Horsehead just to fill something instead of waiting. I am yet to blink those subs as I shot it a few times now.

Stacked L was very nice and after a tiny amount of BlurX the stars edge to edge did not look bad at all. Infact, it is the best I got with this setup. I actually ended up buying an Epsilon E130 and a focuser from moonlite, then backed out at the last minute before they shipped. I think I will stick with this setup. Tortured my local AP friends like every 3 days, should I stick with this setup or get an Epsilon. They are probably tired of me asking this over and over again, haha.

Processing this was not that hard once I did the LRGB step. Usually on my dust images, I end up reducing the stars to show the dust, but I am pretty happy with the starfield that I am going to leave it as-is so I can come back to it as a reference if I need.

Added a few tiny objects as a revision. There are several galaxies littered all over this field. Hope you get to see it in full version and like this result. Clear skies!

(I'll be going to the obs this weekend, need to figure out what is causing my LRGB data (mainly galaxies) to not calibrate correctly. Driving me nuts. With Anis' help I put together a flat panel that can be controlled via ASCOM. Hope that does the trick)

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RA (center)	23h47m00s.91
RA (top/left)	00h06m49s.22
RA (top/right)	23h26m32s.54
RA (bottom/right)	23h28m50s.79
RA (bottom/left)	00h05m55s.60

Dec (center)	+49°47′16″.1
Dec (top/left)	+51°48′01″.6
Dec (top/right)	+51°36′49″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+47°34′42″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+47°44′52″.3

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