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Old 16-02-2022, 01:01 PM
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Thor and a very brief M78

It’s been a long 5 months of almost nothing for me (constant clouds and poorly timed gigs) but did manage a couple of hours under some dark skies on M78 and reprocessed an old Thor’s Helmet. Hoping March works….

When processing M78 I seemed to erroneously get a lot of colour around M78 (much more than I expected anyway), which could well have been the conditions, which, while in a Bortle 2 location, we’re affected by a nearby fire and passing cloud. Might also have be something in processing? Dynamic Background Extraction? Colour balancing?

M78
Scope: Skywatcher Esprit 100
Mount: EQ6-R
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC
Filter: Optolong UV/IR Cut filter
Exposures: 100x60s, and 16x120s totaling around 2 hours
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/full/3wle8b/H/

NGC 2359 (Thor’s Helmet)
Scope: Skywatcher Quattro 8” f4 Newtonian
Mount: EQ6-R
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro
Filters: Astrodon Ha 5nm and OIII 3nm, RGB
Exposures: Ha 57x180s, OIII 51x180s
Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/full/4891y7/H/
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