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NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet, Dominik Weinbrenner
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NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet

NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet, Dominik Weinbrenner
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NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet

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NGC2359 is a personal favourite of mine.
From the day I saw it for the first time, I had to go for it as soon as it was possible.

Being such a small target, I dusted off the Vixen R200SS 8" Newtonian and collimated it the best I could.
In the end, I still had non ideal stars in the corners, that's why I cropped them away. Working with the R200SS I realized that I'm a refractor guy through and through.
I won't continue with Newtonians for the time being, which is why I decided to process the limited data I gathered until now.

The final stack was still very noisy and did not allow to reveal the faint details without revealing noise artifacts.
I kept the stars very small in this process because of their aforementioned non-ideal shapes.

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Description: Re-process to pull more from the dataset.

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NGC2359 - Thor's Helmet, Dominik Weinbrenner