North American Nebula (1st Mosaic target) (Rob Foster)

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North American Nebula (1st Mosaic target)

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North American Nebula (1st Mosaic target)

The North American Nebula (Caldwell 20, or NGC 7000) is an intimidating target given its size. I have been waiting to do my first mosaic this fall with M31, but thought I needed a target to learn the acquisition as well as the development side of constructing a mosaic. Using the Framing Assistant in NINA, it became obvious that even 3 panels were not going to be enough, but that is all I wanted to take on the first time. Not sure what I did wrong in NINA, but so the acquisition phase was more difficult than I thought; still learning the setting up of advanced sequences. The processing in Pixinsight was more straightforward though there are some obvious artifacts that I couldn't quite extinguish. Will have to select another large target to practice on, though for this particular target the next tool may be a DSLR with a 135 mm lens! I ended up with 20 shots of 60 seconds duration for each panel.

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Astrometry.net job	6059464
PixInsight job	FON2N54X2RP4W7MP1P1136CVMS475ZX6
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h59m52s.41
RA (top/left)	21h10m19s.80
RA (top/right)	20h59m40s.69
RA (bottom/right)	20h49m05s.79
RA (bottom/left)	21h00m02s.89

Dec (center)	+44°25′07″.4
Dec (top/left)	+43°28′52″.0
Dec (top/right)	+46°31′10″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+45°17′38″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+42°19′03″.4

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