I gathered photons for this object during two nights. The first night bad weather conditions, typical for my area, but the second night , surprise, surprise the weather conditions were very good, specially the seeing. My HRF was 2.5-2.7 and usually I get 3.1-3.4 or worse. I could see many more stars than usual despite the half Moon very near the nebula. The guiding was perfect, total error in PHD around 0.25-0.4.
Unfortunately the majority of the objects this time of the year go up very early when it is still not dark enough (19.30) and disappear behind the trees to the west already around 23:00. So the second night I could gather only 43 images, because high clouds passing by in the middle of the session.
I could bring out much more blue in the center of the nebula, but it started to give strange brownish tint in the shadows so I left it in this way, that I like more actually
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I still have problems with a bit oval shaped stars and I don't know what causes it, I have good guiding, no tilt in the camera sensor and nothing snagging the cables, the balance seems fine too....well, it will be a troubleshooting during the galaxy season
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Thanks for passing by and clear skies to everybody!
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