NGC 6992 a bat out of hell (Tom Gray)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 1340 · NGC 6992 · NGC 6995 · Veil nebula

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NGC 6992 a bat out of hell

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I’ve been having a hell of a time trying to polar align my SA mount, wasting precious hours of clear sky. The guiding was way off and I just couldn’t figure out what was wrong, until I sat down and thought about it. I’d inverted the reticle in PSPro the App I use for aligning with Polaris! 🙄

I was pleased to have another run of clear nights, even if they coincide with a bright waning moon. I took the opportunity to run both my rigs together to capture NGC 6992 the eastern veil, a supernova remnant in Cygnus.

This image comprises 180s exposures using my UHC-L booster filter, taken over two nights. Processing has been bit of a nightmare, I failed to align the camera correctly between sessions and ended up with framing artefacts; I have tried to process these out, resulting in significant clipping of the image. Nevertheless I’m satisfied to have been able to produce something with a largely manual setup… what would I be like with something more complex!

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Title: 46x300s (230m) integration

Description: Calibrated and stacked in ASTAP, processed in Siril with Starnet removal, Astrosharp, recomposition and final noise reduction

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Title: A not half bad bat

Description: Same processing, with just 19 x 300s (95m) data from the first night. Poor framing, but the seeing was so much better

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Title: Binned, cropped and sharpened

Description: I have had some success binning data from my Altair 183 OSC to boost SNR without too much loss in detail. In this instance I think the extra SNR has allowed me to pull out and sharpen more detail without excessive clipping. I've added a little more green to bring out that beautiful teal colour in the OIII.

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RA (center)	20h56m22s.54
RA (top/left)	20h54m45s.15
RA (top/right)	20h55m02s.72
RA (bottom/right)	20h57m58s.28
RA (bottom/left)	20h57m43s.45

Dec (center)	+31°29′01″.10
Dec (top/left)	+32°03′45″.4
Dec (top/right)	+30°52′24″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+30°54′16″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°05′36″.6

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