Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America nebula  ·  Sh2-117
NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula, lefty7283
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NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula

NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula, lefty7283
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NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula

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Description

Captured on July 2nd, 2018 from a bortle 6 zone.

**Equipment:**

* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* Canon Rebel T3i (Astro modified)

* Baader MPCC Mark III

* StarGuy 2" CLS-CCD Filter

* Astronomik H-Alpha 12nm EOS Clip-in filter



* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

**Acquisition:** 3 hours 13 minutes

* RGB- 21x180" at ISO 800

* H-alpha- 26x300" at ISO 800

* Darks- 10 RGB, 12 H-alpha

* Flats- 0

* Bias- 250

**Capture Software:**

* EQMod mount control. Captured using [N.I.N.A.](https://bitbucket.org/Isbeorn/nina) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering

**PixInsight Processing:**

* H-Alpha:

* BatchPreProcessing

* Crop (1 pixel to make an even number of pixels)

* SplitCFA (only red is used from now on)

* StarAlignment

* ImageIntegration

* DynamicBackgroundExtraction

* RGB:

* BatchPreProcessing

* ImageIntegration

* DynamicCrop

* DynamicBackgroundExtraction

* NBRGBCombination (with Ha data)

* BackgroundNeutralization

* ColorCalibration

* SCNR

* TVGDenoice

* MultiscaleMedianTransform

* ArcsinhStretch

* HistogramTransformation

* ACDNR

* LRGBCombination (chrominance noise reduction)

* Lots of [Curve](https://i.imgur.com/2kjw5Rc.jpg)Transformations

* MorphologicalTransformation

* DarkStructureEnhance

* Annotation

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NGC 7000 - The North America Nebula, lefty7283

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