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IC417 - The Spider Nebula, Phil Hoppes
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IC417 - The Spider Nebula

IC417 - The Spider Nebula, Phil Hoppes
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IC417 - The Spider Nebula

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Still working on zeroing in my guiding on my NYX.  Shot this last night.  This image is more a testimony to the powers of Pixinsight and the RCAstro plugins than my astrophotography prowess.  Guiding on this was actually quite bad IMHO.  I was following some suggestions on CN.  With my previous settings I was getting around 0.6" - 0.8" RMS error in my guiding.  On this effort I was more in the area of 1.3"-1.6" so almost 2x worse.  Almost every sub had some ovalness to the detailed stars over the entire field.  RCAstro BXT plugin rounded things back up but I need to get the guiding dialed in better.  I'm close but I have a few ideas where I need to look.  Phd2 keeps a nice log so it is possible to go back and look at things.  

I'd not heard of this object before but I wanted a nice target I could track most of the night.  I was able to image until about 2am when the clouds rolled in.  The weather report showed I would get clouds around that time so I just programmed NINA to stop around 2:30am.  That worked perfect.  When I got up the skies were completely socked in so that part worked well.  I will try again with some different settings tonight and see if I can get things back to at least where they were and hopefully a tad better.

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IC417 - The Spider Nebula, Phil Hoppes