NGC1555 - HIND'S VARIABLE NEBULA (Anis Abdul)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: Hind's Nebula · Hind's Variable Nebula · LBN 817 · NGC 1554 · NGC 1555 · PGC 1595946 · Sh2-238 · Struve's Lost nebula · VdB28

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First light of QHY268M. I switched from the 294 to 268 and after weeks of bad weather, it cleared enough to shoot some data. NGC1555 is positioned perfectly for full night runs at it.
I also had to redo collimation of the scope (The collimation was messed up when I was trying to fix secondary focuser and caused weird stars and flares). I am satisfied now the collimation with no more multi colored stars!

I decided to stick with a single target before the weather invariably goes bad this time of the year here . So this is the last image of 2023! Happy with how it turned out.
I used high gain mode in the camera as well and it calibrates perfectly. Very clean indeed - Loving the camera so far. The one interesting thing I am noticing is the faint extra diffraction spikes on the bright star. Almost like a camera micro lens diffraction. I need to check this more in detail in other images.

Always wanted to shoot this but between unstable weather around this time of the year and other targets I never managed to shoot this. Love the reflection portion with dark dust in the background. With a slow scope at F9, it is challenging to pull the dust out but I think I managed to my satisfaction this time around (The high gain mode probably helped a lot here as well).
This target is typically a wide-field or midfield target with its large dust structure. But with my FOV, it gets pretty close to the reflection region and gives a good look at the reflection portion.

I shot this all last week (with L most of the time and threw out almost 40% of data). Managed to pick up RGB in the last couple of super dewy nights!

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RA (center)	04h21m54s.780
RA (top/left)	04h21m01s.113
RA (top/right)	04h22m54s.306
RA (bottom/right)	04h22m48s.554
RA (bottom/left)	04h20m55s.205

Dec (center)	+19°30′59″.99
Dec (top/left)	+19°20′54″.91
Dec (top/right)	+19°22′56″.56
Dec (bottom/right)	+19°41′04″.23
Dec (bottom/left)	+19°39′01″.35

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