IC1396 Ha wide field rig testing (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: 1RXS J213944.3+595016 · B157 · B160 · B161 · B162 · B163 · B364 · B365 · B366 · B367 · Erakis (μ Cep) · IC 1396 · IGR J21277+5656 · LBN 443 · LBN 446 · LBN 451 · LBN 452 · LBN 455 · LBN 456 · LBN 457 · LDN · LDN 1077 · LDN 1078 · LDN 1081 · LDN 1083 · LDN 1084 · LDN 1085 · LDN 1086 · LDN 1087 · LDN 1088 · And 68 more.

IC1396 Ha wide field rig testing

It’s been such a long time…I forgot how to upload 😂 Some of you have been asking…I’ve been good, just too wonderfully busy to get to processing.

The clouds are finally gone from So Cal (what a rainy cloudy winter and spring it’s been! One for the record books. There’s still lots of snow in the Sierra’s; Mammoth Mt skiing will be open till August).

Anyway, I found some time to do just a simple Ha of IC1396. This is really about testing the ASKAR300 WITH THE 6200. Size: 6.65 x 4.16 deg (wow!); Pixel scale: 2.59 arcsec/pixel. In this, I integrated in APP with drizzle at 1.5 to see the resulting pixel scale. The stars when zoomed in look much better than at drizzle 1. Pixel peeking shows off this setup. The stacked master was 600MBs 🤪! Simple processing with BLX, EZsoftstretch, NXT, SXT, some curves, darkStructure enhance (as I love those in this area) and combine. I sure love the field of view and the detail that this rig can deliver…it’s a keeper. A great travel rig also. Also, no backspace or tilt issues with this scope and no balancing with the mount. Nice!

I have at least 10 projects worth of data and hope to get to it one of these days. In the meantime, I keep capturing as will be clear. I forgot how much I love that part of this hobby…going out at night and being with the stars.
-john

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Astrometry.net job	7961987
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	21h38m45s.28
RA (top/left)	22h03m09s.31
RA (top/right)	21h40m01s.88
RA (bottom/right)	21h11m47s.49
RA (bottom/left)	21h37m44s.88

Dec (center)	+57°29′00″.0
Dec (top/left)	+55°29′20″.1
Dec (top/right)	+61°23′29″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°09′13″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+53°34′34″.8

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