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IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM, Larry S
IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM, Larry S
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IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM

IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM, Larry S
IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM, Larry S
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IC 5146 Cocoon First Light 294MM

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Needed a fairly bright object to test out new ASI294MM during full moon phases, so I picked god old Cocoon.

I had one of the first ASI294MMs delivered last winter. It gave me a lot of problems with narrowband calibration, flats nearly impossible to get right. I returned it. I was left with a filter wheel and a set of 31mm Astrodons that did not work with my new ASI2600MM. I thought about selling them, but decided to try another 294MM now that they have been in production for a while and may have initial bugs resolved. 

I took narrowband and wideband lights of this target and made corresponding sky flats and the usual darks and flat darks. I did not see the crazy blobs in the flats through the narrowband filters that I had experienced with first camera. Everything calibrated well, no banding or other distortions evident.

There was really no OIII signal in this target, and I did not find SHO, HSS, or HSO color blends to be very attractive, so I only fully processed the HaRGB combination. I'm fairly happy with this for first light. I will need to find optimum gains and and exposures for using it with my telescopes. I have not tried Bin1 mode as yet.

Data from 8/22,23/2021
Ha 40x360" gain 121 offset 30 -10C
RGB 120x90"

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