M13 Wide field (John59)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Hercules (Her) · Contains: 20 nu.01 CrB · 21 nu.02 CrB · 25 Her · 44 eta Her · 61 Her · Hercules · Hercules Globular Cluster · IC 1208 · IC 4614 · IC 4615 · IC 4616 · IC 4617 · M 13 · NGC 6104 · NGC 6105 · NGC 6107 · NGC 6108 · NGC 6109 · NGC 6112 · NGC 6116 · NGC 6117 · NGC 6119 · NGC 6120 · NGC 6122 · NGC 6126 · NGC 6129 · NGC 6131 · NGC 6137 · NGC 6142 · NGC 6150 · And 23 more.

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Last night I tried using the AZ-GTi in AZ mode with Canon 6D MKII paired with Rokinon 135mm F2 lens.
My usual test area was cloudy to the south so I went to M13 which was high in the west. The captures were 8 Seconds and only 15.
All the post processing to include stacking was performed with Affinity Photo software.
I am still struggling with removing light pollution but beginning to understand all the various methods in processing it out.
I found that 15 sec induces star trails but probably due to just using a quick one star alignment. I will keep testing and see if I can get improvements in the AZ mode.
I have been following Altazastro who only shoots in AZ and uses this mount as well. His results are very good.
I may take this one apart and try to tune it. There have been quite a few findings by folks on cloudy nights that have greatly improved it's performance.
Here is the attempt of M13 wide field

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RA (center)	16h41m25s.94
RA (top/left)	17h09m29s.77
RA (top/right)	16h13m08s.94
RA (bottom/right)	16h15m56s.85
RA (bottom/left)	17h07m01s.84

Dec (center)	+37°18′09″.3
Dec (top/left)	+40°46′32″.4
Dec (top/right)	+40°42′04″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°27′01″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°31′39″.7

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