The Fighting Dragons of Ara in SHO (Captured from 30.5° N!) (James)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ara (Ara) · Contains: HD148989 · HD149099 · HD149189 · HD149207 · HD149298 · HD149400 · HD149426 · HD149495 · HD149569 · HD149589 · HD149610 · HD149642 · HD149643 · HD149657 · HD149658 · HD149712 · HD149728 · HD149743 · HD149744 · HD149795 · HD149834 · HD149854 · HD149855 · HD149888 · HD149902 · HD149967 · HD149987 · HD150006 · HD150007 · HD150041 · And 48 more.

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The Fighting Dragons of Ara in SHO (Captured from 30.5° N!)

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The Fighting Dragons of Ara in SHO (Captured from 30.5° N!)

During a full moon in June.. frustrated that my current WIP targets were obscurred too much by the moons light I decided to play around and see how low to the horizon I could image. Maybe I could steal a southern hemisphere target. I am in Central Texas, near Austin. Looking in Stellarium I could see that one of my favorite southern hemisphere targets crested a mere 10°. So I slewed over, expecting to have it obscured by my fence. Turns out it clears the fence at 8.5°

It also looked pretty good, despite the moon. We had a string of clear nights i the forecast and so I decided to make a real go at it. The results blew me away.. never did I think it would have been possible to capture this target from my backyard. Now.. what this has done has unlocked a whole host of targets I had previously written off.

Video of the processing workflow used for this shot: https://youtu.be/me0k1TqES0c

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Astrometry.net job	8042893
PixInsight job	TYSRLHB4B96PHLCD50ELGWRFEYP6RT5W
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	16h39m09s.266
RA (top/left)	16h38m39s.357
RA (top/right)	16h44m44s.186
RA (bottom/right)	16h39m37s.899
RA (bottom/left)	16h33m32s.179

Dec (center)	-48°42′03″.43
Dec (top/left)	-49°38′32″.48
Dec (top/right)	-48°31′37″.66
Dec (bottom/right)	-47°45′36″.39
Dec (bottom/left)	-48°51′27″.44

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