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IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
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IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin
Powered byPixInsight

IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula

Acquisition details

Dates:
Feb. 1, 2022
Frames:
55×600(9h 10′)
Integration:
9h 10′
Avg. Moon age:
0.30 days
Avg. Moon phase:
0.10%

RA center: 07h06m47s.79

DEC center: -11°0444.7

Pixel scale: 1.463 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -69.818 degrees

Field radius: 2.304 degrees

WCS transformation: thin plate spline

More info:Open 

Resolution: 9436x6293

File size: 74.2 MB

Data source: Traveller

Description

I recently met an astrophotographer from Utah, Craig, who has an observatory under a Bortle 2 sky! He had the idea of doing a fun collaboration where we’d shoot a target together using his observatory gear, and process that same data using different software. Craig is a master of Photoshop, he has used the software professionally for years, and is very experienced with it.
I don't consider myself a master of PixInsight (I mean... who really is, besides Adam Block and a few others? 😅), but I would say I'm pretty good at it.

And so the goal was to compare our processing results (his Photoshop vs my PixInsight). Here is my result! I'll have a comparison shot of his result on the Seagull nebula blog post at https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic2177

Gear used:
Takahashi FSQ-106
ZWO ASI6200MM
Paramount MX Mount

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IC 2177 - The Seagull Nebula, 



    
        

            Antoine Grelin