A Try at the Witch Head Nebula under Poor Seeing – First DSO of 2021 (Van H. McComas)

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A Try at the Witch Head Nebula under Poor Seeing – First DSO of 2021

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A Try at the Witch Head Nebula under Poor Seeing – First DSO of 2021

A Try at the Witch Head Nebula under Poor Seeing – First DSO of 2021

One should not start out stating what is wrong with an image and I almost didn’t post this one. Seeing was Poor if not Bad but I spent three hours outside in freezing temperatures at an attempt at this dim DSO, it was my first since it rises first (besides M45) in my field of view. I have spend more hours at post processing trying to get this image out and this is the best I could do. This was shot at 150 mm focal length, 90 mm aperture, f/5.6, using the Sigma 150-600 mm telephoto lens, on the modified Canon T71. I shot 40 Lights at 1 minute each plus Darks, Flats, and Dark Flats. Post processed with Deep Sky Stacker, Star Tools 1.6, Photoshop 2021, and Lightroom.

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RA (center)	05h05m11s.83
RA (top/left)	04h54m45s.34
RA (top/right)	04h54m36s.69
RA (bottom/right)	05h15m51s.29
RA (bottom/left)	05h15m37s.60

Dec (center)	-07°42′49″.5
Dec (top/left)	-03°48′08″.8
Dec (top/right)	-11°36′55″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	-11°36′51″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	-03°47′44″.9

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