NGC2968 and friends (John R Carter, Sr.)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: NGC 2964 · NGC 2968 · NGC 2970

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NGC2968 and friends

NGC 2968 is the central 11th mag galaxy in this image. NGC 2964 (11th mag) and NGC 2970 (13th mag) are in the field of view.
I wasn't trying to do more than capture as many images as I could stay awake for using just a 30s exposure.
I might try the same image with 60s and 90s exposures just to see the difference, but I have to wait for a night of no Moon and no clouds.
This is my first serious set of images after getting my QHY128C back from repairs.
I have also been using the default gain of 2000 with an offset of 30. I might try a gain of 100 with and mess around with the offset a bit. Just trying to find the sweet spot for imaging.
My biggest disappointment with this image is in getting PixInsight to do a PCC - it can't get a star solution on the image. ASTAP has no problem with the image. I have another set of images for M77 and PCC gets a star solution with that. Both sets of images were taken on the same night.

To get some kind of satisfactory image, I did the best I could with PI and then finished it off with Affinity Photo. And I'm still not pleased. However, Affinity Photo did a much better job of removing the gradient and background than PI did.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5494745
PixInsight job	L0BWRCPGDVLPE87RX35O3TI8QPGMR698
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	09h43m08s.390
RA (top/left)	09h44m37s.890
RA (top/right)	09h41m15s.433
RA (bottom/right)	09h41m38s.986
RA (bottom/left)	09h45m00s.376

Dec (center)	+31°56′14″.46
Dec (top/left)	+32°13′55″.32
Dec (top/right)	+32°06′22″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°38′32″.32
Dec (bottom/left)	+31°46′00″.63

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