NGC7788 Whoa! (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: LBN 568 · LBN 571 · LBN 576 · LDN 1255 · NGC 7788 · NGC 7790 · PGC 2599808 · PGC 2606192 · PGC 2607440 · PGC 2796237 · PGC 2796248 · PGC 2796252 · Sh2-168 · Sh2-169

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I remember the first time I stretched a stacked image (in DSS). I said out loud, WHOA! Haven't felt that way in a while as results with 10 to 20 hours of integration are expected to be amazing. But this image did it to me. The story:

I setup and was testing my old CGEM II mount the other night in my backyard. Had my 102GT and OSC camera on it. I knew I had only a few hours without clouds and also wanted to test my backfocus and tilt plate. I went for the star clusters in Cassiopeia. With bortle 6+, the full moon and poor seeing, I could barely see Polaris to rough align. Got 25 x 5 minute subs and when I stacked (in APP) and saw the resulting image, I literally said out load WHOA! Totally unexpected results. Amazing to image this when you cannot even see Caph. Posting for the story (as I hope you don't pixel peep the stars in the corners...will work on those issues next clear night).

Wishing you all have WHOA moments!

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RA (center)	23h56m42s.89
RA (top/left)	23h50m37s.11
RA (top/right)	23h50m00s.49
RA (bottom/right)	00h02m23s.10
RA (bottom/left)	00h03m55s.66

Dec (center)	+61°25′09″.7
Dec (top/left)	+62°36′22″.8
Dec (top/right)	+60°17′53″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°13′02″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+62°31′04″.7

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