Heart and Soul (Mr. Ashley McGlone)

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Been wanting to shoot this for a while. It was a beautiful night, not too hot, not too cold, no dew. Managed to get 3 hours on the Heart and Soul hanging out just below Cassiopeia. Lost an hour up front waiting for it to clear the tree line. Loving my setup for this year:
RedCat
Triad Ultra filter - perfect filter for Bortle 6+ skies
Astroberry
Canon 6D modified

90x120" lights + calibration frames
ISO 1600
Bortle 6

Learned a new GIMP technique for star reduction. Instead of using StarNet++, you get your image tuned where you want, then duplicate the layer. On the bottom layer you do Filters > Generic > Erode. On the top layer you reduce transparency to 30-40% to taste. Boom!

William Optics CAT Series

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5053080
PixInsight job	GUWUBHQI0TTNRYSTNMC2EOL4Y4N1XPCY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h45m27s.5
RA (top/left)	02h06m18s.6
RA (top/right)	02h55m14s.8
RA (bottom/right)	03h21m43s.2
RA (bottom/left)	02h32m19s.8

Dec (center)	+61°29′43″
Dec (top/left)	+62°20′29″
Dec (top/right)	+56°59′37″
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°00′04″
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°56′21″

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