NGC7000 in Classic SHO - First Light: Epsilon 160ED/Full Frame (rqfugate)

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NGC7000 in Classic SHO - First Light: Epsilon 160ED/Full Frame

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Revision title: RGB Stars + Modified Color

Long time watcher but my first time posting on AstroBin.

Initial test image from a portable rig I am assembling. Taken in my backyard in north central Phoenix (Bortle 9) under a nearly full moon (96%) - SQM reading was 17.4. Only one night of data so far - but excited to report what seems to be a good result. 22x3 min Ha, 10x3min SII and 10X3 min OIII subs. Chroma 3 nm filters (seeing no significant signal loss at F3.3).
Takahashi Epsilon 160ED on iOptron HEM44EC, guided. ZWO ASI6200MM camera, Optec-LEO focuser.

Processing in PixInsight: WBPP, ABE then BXT, NXT on each channel (OII and SII quite noisy - need 5X more data), ChannelCombination, AutoColor script, then one step HT stretch from STF. Adjusted contrast and brightness in PS. No other adjustments. Image file compressed to a reasonable size for posting.

Appreciate comments, suggestions and critique. Thank you.

Bob Fugate

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Title: - 4096 pixel version

Description: Trying to reduce the compression artifacts at the full resolution

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Title: RGB stars

Description: Revision 2 with RGB stars made from 10x30sec exposures each for R, G, and B filters.

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Title: RGB Stars + Modified Color

Description: In this revision I have reduced the predominantly blue color to better show the structure and composition of the cloud area especially in the "North America" region.

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Astrometry.net job	7930826
PixInsight job	SXOKR5GN70BNEBFMYUOVGF0SONGYWHSZ
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h55m54s.44
RA (top/left)	21h03m37s.13
RA (top/right)	20h43m17s.20
RA (bottom/right)	20h48m40s.58
RA (bottom/left)	21h08m18s.72

Dec (center)	+44°22′30″.6
Dec (top/left)	+46°13′35″.9
Dec (top/right)	+44°50′32″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+42°29′30″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+43°49′17″.10

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