Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent Nebula  ·  IC 1340  ·  IC 5068  ·  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6888  ·  NGC 6960  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Part of the constellation Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 31Cyg  ·  The star 32Cyg  ·  The star 41Cyg  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  The star Deneb (αCyg)  ·  The star Gienah (εCyg)  ·  The star Sadr (γCyg)  ·  The star νCyg  ·  The star ξCyg  ·  The star τCyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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Cygnus (the juiciest parts), dkamen
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Cygnus (the juiciest parts)

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Cygnus (the juiciest parts)

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So I started doing Sadr after Deneb and realised about 20% of the two images was overlapping. Said "why not". 

In the end I had more than 2800 subs and 46 panels. The Sadr and Deneb panels are about 13 thousand seconds deep. I processed all that on a NUC which I haven't shut down for 3 weeks.

Because of overlapping panels, some parts of the image are more than 20 thousand seconds deep, while others as little as 300 seconds. Which is still a lot at f/2.8, turns out.

I did not use the Advanced form because it was so many nights, practically every other night between August 9th and September 10th. All subs were 20 seconds, ISO800. More than half of the subs were with in-camera dark frame subtraction. It was impossible to get good enough flats but with 2.8k subs it doesn't matter.

The full mosaic actually included δ and η Cyg but I didn't like the resulting composition.

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Cygnus (the juiciest parts), dkamen