The Heart (Mike Hamende)

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The Heart

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The Heart

I'd never really had a strong desire to image the Heart nebula after someone had pointed out it looked reminiscent of something else that is not a heart... Now I can't un-see it. Regardless, it was positioned well in the sky and with the full moon overhead I needed to target an emission nebula with both rigs. Now that I've been looking at this for a few days it has grown on me.

This was the first time I've used the NormalizeScaleGradient script in pixinsight an although I've not done a direct comparison I feel it has improved the quality of the final integration significantly.

The stars are a bit egg shaped. I've been dealing with some rather severe DEC backlash on my tiny AZ-GTi that cannot be removed mechanically due to the construction of the gearboxes used. I've since found a solution but the majority of the subs suffered.

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	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5024280
PixInsight job	RVE1B8NTOWT9CGIHPSYY852LP46C0GQB
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h33m12s.71
RA (top/left)	02h18m54s.98
RA (top/right)	02h19m14s.91
RA (bottom/right)	02h45m59s.99
RA (bottom/left)	02h48m41s.93

Dec (center)	+61°43′51″.0
Dec (top/left)	+63°25′30″.9
Dec (top/right)	+60°05′09″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°57′05″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+63°16′37″.1

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