First light for a new to me FSQ106N. Its quite nice having a very flat field to work with.
IC2944 and little friend (PN294.9)
During processing I noticed what I thought was an artifact around 2.00. Turns out it is a small planetary, He 2-72/PN294.9 There are 2 images of this returned on google, one being an instruction to identify unknown objects using Plate solving in Maxim DL and overlays in the zoom tab of telescope control and the other was an accidental RGB find.
Given that my cropped image is 7 hours of Ha and Oiii (no Sii to speak of) this therefore would make my image the only Bicolour NB one returned on Google images? Wohoo! See attached.
This would really benefit from a longer FL scope..Where's SteveC when you need him?
Details
11 hours of 20 min subs with the FSQ106N with an STL 6303e hanging off the back and mounted on an AP900.
This was self guided behind 3-5NM NB astrodon filters so 20 second guiding subs needed. Thanks goodness for short FL scopes!
Nod of the head to Martin P who kindly shared the PI Process icon for DBE removal on the Oiii Master after he played with the first light data (much better than this, by the way..)
Cheers