Thanks Peter, I have been really surprised by the reaction to something that I really imaged on a whim. I thought about CED111 but decided it was too obvious and too bright for what I was trying to test out, so I poked around with the virtual FOV tool in the Voyager web dashboard and thought this looked interesting.
This really showed that integration time is king. The result from two nights (Just under 10 hours total integration time) was not nearly as nice or smooth. Apart from an equipment issue I would have had 20 hours over four nights! I may spend another night on it yet just to see if I have hit the point of diminishing returns.
It was nice to prove that the ASI2600MC does not have the background artifact issue that limits the ASI294MC. That seems to be related to the bayer matrix itself, I suspect some sort of interfereometry like effect going on.
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