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Cygnus Widefield, Mike Hamende
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Cygnus Widefield

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Cygnus Widefield

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I finally got some relief from seemingly endless forced overtime at work. Here is the first light for my YN50mm lens.

I had originally purchased this yongnuo 50mm lens for use with my modified DSLR but I sold the camera before I had a chance to use the lens. So now I needed a way to control the autofocus and the aperture from N.I.N.A. Long story short I programmed an arduino to control the lens and wrote an ASCOM driver to interface with N.I.N.A, a fun project indeed. You can see more details about the lens here: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/756381-yongnuo-50mm-f18-hacked-for-autofocus-and-aperture-control/

For processing I split the image into RGB then build separate Ha and Oiii images based on the QE of the camera at those wavelengths. I make a synthetic green from Ha and Oiii then recombine using LRGB -> Ha Ha SynG Oiii.

In the image we have the North America Nebula, Pelican Nebula, Sadr Region, and Crescent nebula just to name a few.

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Cygnus Widefield, Mike Hamende