Pacman Nebula - HOO (Simon)

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Well, I started the imaging for this before I had my two weeks holiday. On the night I was due to board a plane, I knew I had to take my chance on that same night to get my OIII data. As that is so, I went to bed an hour later than my family, and got up 30 minutes earlier than they did, so I could achieve this! Needing to leave the house at 2 a.m., meant that I only got 3 hours sleep. I hear myself saying to myself, 'now that's commitment for you!' It is a good job that I did this, because whilst away, the weather was awful here anyway, and since I got back I have only had a bit of clear weather. I hope to process the 'wizard' soon which I took during this most recent period. At this time, we are under heavy cloud for the next foreseeable period and any further imaging is unlikely.

I took 70 Has, and 60 OIIIs, each at 4 minutes in length, exposure time. This equates to an imaging time of 8 hours and 40 minutes. The ability to bring out that deep blue from the OIII still eludes me, but I am happy with the image and its details.

Hope you are all well.

Simon

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	00h52m58s.52
RA (top/left)	00h43m34s.37
RA (top/right)	01h01m24s.58
RA (bottom/right)	01h02m43s.10
RA (bottom/left)	00h44m07s.71

Dec (center)	+56°39′32″.7
Dec (top/left)	+55°57′27″.1
Dec (top/right)	+55°45′23″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°18′56″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°31′29″.4

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