M35 Captured with a Monkey (astropical)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Gemini (Gem) · Contains: 1 Gem · 10 Gem · 11 Gem · 12 Gem · 141 Tau · 2 Gem · 3 Gem · 4 Gem · 5 Gem · 54 chi01 Ori · 57 Ori · 6 BU Gem · 62 chi02 Ori · 64 Ori · 7 eta Gem · 8 Gem · 9 Gem · B227 · Gem A · IC 2156 · IC 2157 · IC 2159 · IC 443 · IC 444 · M 35 · Monkey Head Nebula · NGC 2129 · NGC 2158 · NGC 2168 · NGC 2174 · And 19 more.

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M35 Captured with a Monkey

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M35 Captured with a Monkey

A miracle -- an hour without clouds and moonshine! Gear set up in a rush without controlling the balance weight resulting in elongated stars. Anyway, not too bad for 28 minutes integration, as long as you do not zoom in. Lens stopped down at f2.8. In fact, I did not expect to unveil the Monkey Head that clearly, but it did work thanks to Starnet++ which also allowed me to keep star sizes of the base layer rather small.

Again an image without calibration. Actually, I do not figure a dramatic improvement with calibration frames, unless the camera sensor is contaminated in which event flat frames would truly be nice to have. Dark frames do remove dead pixels but you can have DSS remove them and it seems to work elegantly, though my level of experience may not qualify such a statement.

Next time with more concentration on the setup, it wasn't my day sneezing several times a minute. Nah, I didn't catch a cold, as a Japanese saying goes: "baka wa kaze hikanai", the stupid does not catch a cold.

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RA (center)	06h06m23s.30
RA (top/left)	06h09m25s.66
RA (top/right)	05h44m09s.95
RA (bottom/right)	06h03m35s.16
RA (bottom/left)	06h29m21s.14

Dec (center)	+22°50′10″.2
Dec (top/left)	+28°31′13″.2
Dec (top/right)	+20°21′37″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+17°09′17″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+25°06′27″.4

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