Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5068  ·  NGC 6989  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  The star 57Cyg
North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall, JackJohnson
North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall
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North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall

North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall, JackJohnson
North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall
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North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall

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Cygnus wall and the rest of the North America Nebula in Ha

This was the first time I have used automation software (Ekos in my case) for a project. It opened up a lot of new techniques that I was able to learn or perfect such as guiding, dithering, plate solving, and assisted focusing.

I really learned how important getting a proper polar alignment was. Spending the time to get my polar scope colimated and spending the extra 10min to get my mount leveled and the polar aligned better resulted in my best guiding yet. I was consistently in the .8" tot RMS range. I learned the hard way "Dither or Die" after throwing out four hours of integration time because the walking noise was so atrocious without dithering.

With 3min subs I was struggling to get enough signal with the Night Sky Ha filter and an unmodified Sony a6000. I think I may switch to broadband until I get a dedicated camera. I'm really happy for how this turned out, now I just need to learn how to post process better!

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North America Nebula focusing on Cygnus Wall, JackJohnson