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Old 11-08-2014, 10:20 PM
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Octane (Humayun)
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IC4628 (work in progress)

Yep, another one!

Here is 1.5 hours worth of 7 nm hydrogen alpha, taken in 30-minute sub-exposures.

Just a quickie put together in MaxIm DL with a DPP/log stretch, and saved to JPG in Photoshop CC.

I had a couple of sub-exposures before the crack in my sensor appeared. So, tonight's 30 minute offering didn't contribute too much to the crack.

I had a massive win tonight with my guiding. I turned the aggressiveness right down to 1 for both X and Y in MaxIm DL and I was getting a pretty much perfectly smooth guiding graph with 6.8 second guide exposures (CCD Commander automatic guiding enabled). I previously used to have it at 8, then, tried 4, and 3. Even 2 was too much. The two prior exposures had very slight trailing, but, I included them in my stack, anyway, just to see what would happen. Tonight's 30 minute addition had absolutely perfect round stars. I'm so stoked.

SBIG STL-11000M, Takahashi FSQ-106N, Losmandy G-11 G
3 x 1800s f/5.0 530.0mm at -20 degrees Celsius

Larger version available here.

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