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IC5146 Cocoon Nebula, Michael Thurston
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IC5146 Cocoon Nebula

IC5146 Cocoon Nebula, Michael Thurston
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IC5146 Cocoon Nebula

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This image was captured on the first clear night in 6 weeks. It's only 1 hour and 22 min might get more subs in the future but who knows with the way the weather has been at my location. Focus and telescope collimation is poor in this image.  The image is "smoothed" more than I like to hide my issues. The poor atmosphere gave me problems with autofucus and with so few clear night this year I didn't want to take the time to collimate.   I will however have that corrected before I image again. 
Also, I have just bought a ZWO ASI 2600MC Pro (Too lazy to go with a Mono camera).  I am still learning how to get the best results.  I imaged in Bortle 2 skies and with poor atmospheric conditions (couldn't autoguide and take more than 2-3 min subs).  This meant I had very low signal.  I wanted to offset that by taking a large number of subs but I'll have to wait and see what the weather does.

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IC5146 Cocoon Nebula, Michael Thurston