Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Aries (Ari)  ·  Contains:  NGC 918
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NGC918 and IFN from Catskills, Alex Varakin
NGC918 and IFN from Catskills
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NGC918 and IFN from Catskills

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NGC918 and IFN from Catskills, Alex Varakin
NGC918 and IFN from Catskills
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NGC918 and IFN from Catskills

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This image was taken from the new Rockland Astronomy Club observing location in  Catskills near Livingston Manor.
The site offers some of the darkest skies on the east coast with only 2 hours drive from NYC metro.
I took the data for this object over just one night but due to dark skies, I was able to get a decent image.I used excellent StarXterminator plugin for separating stars from the rest of the data very early in processing for both L and RGB.
Most of processing was done on starless and star images and then recombined in the end.

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NGC918 and IFN from Catskills, Alex Varakin