From Barnard's Galaxy to Sh2-63 (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: 13.63 · 61 g Sgr · 780 Armenia · Barnard's Galaxy · NGC 6818 · NGC 6822 · PK025-17.1 · Sh2-63 · The star 61Sgr

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From Barnard's Galaxy to Sh2-63

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From Barnard's Galaxy to Sh2-63

I managed to cobble together 7hours though cloud on Barnard's galaxy to complete the mosaic with Sh2-63. After an entire day post-processing, I have finally given up and present here my least bad image. [I have a rule - life is too short to spend longer on post-processing than acquiistion] .

I had a feeling that "less would be more" when I posted Sh2-63 image on its own, since I suspected I wouldn't be able to match adding the Barnard's galaxy pane would only detract from it. I was right.

Nevertheless, Barnard's galaxy on its own is pretty unispriring, and the two DSOs together do help to give a better sense of the IGM in this region.

I did push the histogram stretch further than I normally would, to reveal the clouds in this region a little more. There is a more subdued version for those that prefer a less stretched version.

Note to self, don't try an LRGB mosaic under vastly variable conditions on two faint DSOs in the presence of substantial galactic fluff ever again.

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Description: Tried making the mosaic with APP.

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Astrometry.net job	4973180
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RA (center)	19h52m40s.73
RA (top/left)	20h00m44s.41
RA (top/right)	19h43m22s.14
RA (bottom/right)	19h44m28s.88
RA (bottom/left)	20h02m06s.83

Dec (center)	-14°42′28″.10
Dec (top/left)	-12°54′46″.3
Dec (top/right)	-13°18′45″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	-16°29′02″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	-16°04′53″.3

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