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North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), Don Alm
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North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)

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North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), Don Alm
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North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)

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Description

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ACQUISITION DETAILS
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Target: North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070)
Camera Gain: 100
Camera Temperature: -10 C
Exposure: 300 s
Focal Length: 128 mm
Aperture: f/4.0
Integration Time: 7 hours
Total Frames: 84
Night #1: 10-Aug-2023 (30 frames)
Night #2: 11-Aug-2023 (15 frames)
Night #3: 18-Aug-2023 (39 frames)

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EQUIPMENT
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Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Filter: ZWO UV/IR Cut
Lens: Rokinon 135mm f/2.0
Mount: ZWO AM5
Tripod: ZWO TC40
Guide Scope: SVBONY SV106 Guide Scope 60mm
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini

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SKY CONDITIONS
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Night #1
Bortle Level: 5
Astrospheric Cloud Cover: 8%
Astrospheric Transparency: Above Average
Astropheric Seeing: Above Average
Moon in Sky?: No
Temperature: 67 F
Wind: Calm
Humidity: 98%
Dew Point: 66 F

Night #2
Bortle Level: 5
Astrospheric Cloud Cover: 2%
Astrospheric Transparency: Average
Astropheric Seeing: Average
Moon in Sky?: No
Temperature: 69 F
Wind: Calm
Humidity: 100%
Dew Point: 69 F

Night #3
Bortle Level: 5
Astrospheric Cloud Cover: 0%
Astrospheric Transparency: Above Average
Astropheric Seeing: Below Average
Moon in Sky?: No
Temperature: 66 F
Wind: SSW 1 mph
Humidity: 77%
Dew Point: 59 F

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POST-PROCESSING WORK FLOW
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Siril IC
1. Project Properties: Multi-Session w/ Equalize (CFA)
2. Files: Image; Dark (x30 @ 300s); Flat (x30 @ 3s); Dark-Flat (x30 @ 3s)
3. Image Properties
3a. Stack: Mean
3b. Rejection Type: Windsorized
3c. Weighing: WFWHM
3d. Normalisation: addscale

PixInsight
1. Script: ImageSolver
2. Process: AutomaticBackgroundExtractor (Function Degree = 2; Target Image Correction = Subtract)
3. Process: SpectrophotometricColorCalibration (Defaults)
4. Process: SCNR (Color to remove = Green; Amount = 1.00)
5. Process: BlurXTerminator (version 2 - Defaults)
6. Process: ScreenTransferFunction (move midtones slider to right to reduce star brightness to desired level)
7. Process: HistogramTransform (keep at default)
8. Process: StarNet2 (Stride = 256; Create starmask = checked)
9. Process: GeneralizedHyperbolicStretch (3 iterations of stretches on starless image to highlight nebulae)
10. Process: PixelMath (combine stretched starless image & star mask)
11. Process: DynamicCrop (remove borders of image that didn't contain stars on every subframe)
12. Process: NoiseXTerminator (Denoise = 0.75)
13. Process: ICCProfileTransformation (Convert to profile = sRGB IEC61966-2.1)

GIMP
1. Saturation (1.50)
2. Crop Image (2000 x 2000)

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North America Nebula (NGC 7000) & Pelican Nebula (IC 5070), Don Alm

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