NGC 6992, Bortle9

NGC 6992

NGC 6992, Bortle9

NGC 6992

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Description

This is my second deep sky object. Acquired on a fairly chilly night here in Toronto, around 6 degrees. I spent some extra time to get a pretty solid polar alignment, even though I can't see Polaris from my balcony. I used the DARV slew method that is built-in to NINA, which worked nicely (thanks Robert Vice, wherever you are).

I had a lot of fun taking this image and screwing around in PixInsight. My acquisition is improving, but I still have some outstanding issues to resolve.

* Still having elongated stars at the edges of the image, even though I've set the backfocus to +50% from the manufacturer spec

* Still have wicked vignetting, but I ordered the correct size filter, so that should be solved soon

* I have pretty much no idea what I'm doing with processing

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NGC 6992, Bortle9