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NGC663 and Field in Cassiopeia (True Color), Douglas Triggs
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NGC663 and Field in Cassiopeia (True Color)

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NGC663 and Field in Cassiopeia (True Color), Douglas Triggs
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NGC663 and Field in Cassiopeia (True Color)

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A bit of a palette cleanser squeezed in while working on a huge mosaic project (I needed a break; weather's been iffier this month than the stretch of fantastic fall weather we'd been having before, and it's taking a really long time to finish the big project.  Being ambitious felt great when I started...  Now not so much).

It's a really nice field in in Cassiopeia with a ton of interesting clusters all...  Clustered together, and a little bit of dark nebula for extra texture (the plate solving is missing a few additional minor clusters, Collinder 15 and Czernik 4 in the top right, and Berkeley 5 on the top left edge).  I'm also getting better at acquiring and processing images like this with the mono camera (would have been a tiny bit easier with a color camera, I think).  It's already clearly technically better than my Double Cluster image, and maybe better than my Pleiades picture, although that has other challenges that are different than this.  I'm still figuring it out, though, and I'm sure I still have room to improve.

This is the first image I've done completely unguided; since I started having frequent problem with my guiding I've just stopped using it; I've spot checked the tracking with PHD2 and it seems like it probably would have been fine-ish this time, but the model seems to be performing just fine, so. I'll probably re-asses once I switch back to an OAG.

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