IC 2944 Headless Chicken
Some reasonably clear nights with intermittent high cloud early this week on the South Coast allowed some imaging time
Captured IC 2944 Running Chicken Nebula ( less head and feet ) under a Full Moon
NexDome Obs
8” f5 GSO newt
EQ6-R mount
ZWOASI2600MC Gain 0 cooled to -10C
Optolong L Extreme filter
42 x 3 minute dithered guided subs
40 x Flats
50 x Bias
Tracking and Goto EQMOD and Ascom Stellarium
Framed focused and captured with APT
PHD2 Multistar guiding ( 0.50 to 0.60 arc sec error total rms )
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.7
Synthetic Luminance version
Some Bi colour versions using Compose and the Colour module Matrix (SHO)
Comments welcome
Thanks
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