Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 891
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NGC891 - The Silver Sliver Galaxy, Pete Mumbower
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NGC891 - The Silver Sliver Galaxy

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NGC891 - The Silver Sliver Galaxy, Pete Mumbower
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NGC891 - The Silver Sliver Galaxy

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Finally got my 12" tuned up 95% with the various upgrades and mods. That last 5% might not be possible, but I am really happy with the data this is producing now. Time to start collection data!

This edge-on up in Pegasus has been one of my favorites and was well placed in the sky to get a bunch of data while waiting for Orion to rise high enough for another project. Being the cloudy time of year for me, I have dialed back the total integration on this, but still with only ~10hrs @ f/4 lots of detail was captured in the dust lanes. Processing is pretty tame in PI. I run the Lum thru BXT, but dialed back to 75% and even then I might go back further in future. Then a dialed back BXT dose. Before heading into some light handed GHS and HT tweaks. For the RGB I combined the channels, SPCC, NXT, and then some careful GHS before adding the Lum in. The FOV is fairly big and not a lot going on, so I cropped this as seen and resampled 2x.

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NGC891 - The Silver Sliver Galaxy, Pete Mumbower