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Old 14-05-2016, 05:28 PM
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Beginnings of NGC 6744

Last night I headed up to Heathcote with the plan of getting 1-1.5 hr RGB and hopefully 3 hr of L. Plans failed obviously!

The resulting image is R 12x300 and L 12x300, using just the Luminance I am limited to 8 of them due to the others being a bit elongated. The seeing seemed to average about 2.5"-3" getting worse as the night progressed. Tried making an RGB, really nice red, everything has green bars and then a nice blue halo

11/12 of the green subs are quite elongated, no idea why at 300s though, guess the mount was just not playing nice!

8/12 of the blue are pretty good but there must have been some high level haze through them as the brighter stars quite bloated. The last four were lost due to cloud.

Issues aside, quite happy how this has turned out considering the poor seeing and my guider glitching on me four times throughout the night :/ Haven't been too heavy handed on the processing, there are some hot pixels that I still need to process out but this is a preliminary job. Hoping to revisit this again in a couple of months when its higher in the sky.

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