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California the Golden Coast, Don Walters
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California the Golden Coast

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California the Golden Coast, Don Walters
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California the Golden Coast

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I don't know why but something about the golden browns just looks good to me.  I tried shooting my 135mm lens (stopped down to f/2.8) with ASI1600 unguided.  I stacked about 35 of Ha and 35 SII, although I captured about double this number of each, but they had bad-looking stars from poor tracking.  I was disappointed because my AP 600E mount was using PEC at the time, so i expected better results.  I've decided to go back to the guider so I can keep more of my shots.

This was combined in Pixel math with:

R: Ha
G: 50%/50% of Ha and SII
B: SII

It didn't seem to have much OIII and I had a full moon coming up anyway and shot under a waxing gibbous moon.  Overall not bad for just 2.5 hours of integration.

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California the Golden Coast, Don Walters