Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1848  ·  IC 1871
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Soul Nebula, Alex
Soul Nebula
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Soul Nebula

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Soul Nebula, Alex
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Soul Nebula

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Acquisition details

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Description

I'm not really happy with this image, but I thought I'd upload it anyway.

This was a bit of a disaster, RA tracking was terrible and I'm not sure why. My images taken of the same part of the sky a few days earlier were fine.

However the stacked image doesn't look as bad as I thought it might considering the elongation of stars that some of the images showed.

Equipment:

iOptron CEM25P mount

Skywatcher ED80 DS Pro (510mm Focal Length with 0.85x Reducer/Flattener)

ZWO ASI 183MM Pro Imaging Camera (Cooled to -15 degC)

ZWO ASI 120MM-S Guide Camera

ZWO Mini EFW

SkyWatcher 9x50 Finder as guide scope

Nanopi M4 running Armbian with KStars and EKOS/INDI for capture and guiding

Acquisition:

Night of the 4th Dec 2019

144 x 60secs Luminance

8 x 180secs Red

7 x 180secs Green

8 x 180secs Blue

213 mins Total Exposure

64 darks

25 flats

256 bias

Pre-Processing:

Stacked in DSS

Main Image Processing in Star Tools:

Bin 50%

Crop

Wipe

Develop

Deconvolution

Contrast

HDR

Filter

Colour

Life

Wavelet De-Noise

Magic - Star reduction

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

Soul Nebula, Alex