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Old 10-02-2021, 09:44 PM
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aiming for 2nd Halley's

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nearly 8 hours on the Eta Carina Nebula

Dipping my toe into the deep (sky) end of the forums here after a while paddling in the beginners AP forum, so be kind

I made the most of some relatively cloudfree skies last night (rare indeed!) and combined with a few hours from a couple of nights earlier.

7hr 48 total - 150 x 2min and 42 x 4min exposures with QHY268c in High Gain Mode at 60 gain. L extreme filter and my little Askar 400 F5.6.

I am incresingly impressed with NINA as my capture software. Last night kept my CEM40 mount chugging, meridian flip, auto-refocus and plaetsolving, parking and warming cameraa the end, all while I slept. Nice :-)

Subs stacked in APP and extracted and saved into Ha-OIII mono as Luminance, Ha as Red and OIII as green and Blue and then recombined and processed in Startools. Used Matrix setting in Startools colour module and selected H (H+O) 100R, 50R + 25G + 25B, 50G + 50B setting to give this colour palette

Finished in PS.

Full resolution version on Astrobin as linked below

https://www.astrobin.com/full/90lgrs/0/?nc=user
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