Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 5070  ·  NGC 6997  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America Nebula  ·  Pelican Nebula  ·  The star 56Cyg  ·  The star 57Cyg
NGC7000 (North America Nebula), StarSeeker
NGC7000 (North America Nebula)
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NGC7000 (North America Nebula)

NGC7000 (North America Nebula), StarSeeker
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NGC7000 (North America Nebula)

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After my successful test guiding the StarAdventurer with the MG32 and GPCAMv2, I decided to have a go at the North America nebula again. Again, I had to push hard with the processing to punch through my Bortle 8 skies but having a good few hours of data helped and I'm really happy with the detail I've managed to pull out. Especially as this is a Ha target and I'm shooting with an unmodded Sony A5000!

Areas I'm looking to improve are the heavy vignetting (even more visible pre-crop) and dust spots and also flattening the field. First step is probably to delve into producing flat frame subs.

Looking forward I'm thinking about investing in the Optolong l-eNhance to enable me to capture cleaner images by ignoring my heavy light pollution. An OVL field flattener is also on my list to flatten the field and avoid having to crop so heavily. Time to start saving the £££s again!

As usual comments are always welcome.

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NGC7000 (North America Nebula), StarSeeker