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Collinder 463, Lee
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Collinder 463

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Collinder 463

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During a full moon, shooting broadband is always going to be a challenge so I try and focus on star clusters/star fields.  This time it was the fortuitous find of Collinder 463.  I'd been shooting a star field near by (see here) and realised I wasn't going to get much from it (I'd still hoped for some faint background stuff) so started to increase the field of view in NINA and found this nearby.  A search of Astrobin only found a handful of images.

This is an unusual framing as the original plan which seemed like it would work just didn't look right so I took this crop instead.  Collinder 463 is the large cluster to the right of centre.

The gradients from the moon were terrible, so working with this was challenging and hope of anything in the background is long gone!  About a third of the subs were culled for cloud.

Thanks for looking

Captured with NINA, pre-processed in APP and GraXpert, processed in PixInsight.

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Description: Had a final go at processing this one, trying to make Collinder 463 a little more prominent.

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