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North America Nebula and its friends, Christophe Perroud
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North America Nebula and its friends

North America Nebula and its friends, Christophe Perroud
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North America Nebula and its friends

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This is a new and quick attempt at the well-known North America Nebula and its friends, but this time with the Astronomik Ha 12nm filter. I spent a couple of hours last Saturday to install my lightweight setup in the backyard and shot this beautiful area in Cygnus. The final result is not suitable for an APOD but I feel very happy the way it turned out regarding the reasonable time I’ve given to achieve this image. I’m also more confortable with a complet processing under PixInsight now. Good bye DSS, thanks for your kind help while starting astrophotography in 2017 ;-)

This rich Ha region is always fantastic to visit, both visually and photographic, with appropriate filter suited on. I never get tired of NGC 7000 and its features! Ha bring out so much detail and perform better contrast. The « Great Wall » is pretty good considering the small aperture of the FS-60, to my humble opinion.

Funny in this night session is that I missed Polaris by at least 10° while setting up all gears and was still fine-tuning my polar alignement with the help of PS Align Pro app and started recording test images …that went amazingly bad ! Gave a look again at the sky and realized my huge mistake :-))) To much red wine at dinner…

Thanks for looking at my new image and clear skies to all !

Christophe

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North America Nebula and its friends, Christophe Perroud