Couple from last night: The Wall & NGC6995

[fwm891]

Contrails spread widely last night to begin with but gradually dispersed. I spent that time doing a PA check and making adjustments, I'd swaped scopes to the Altair 115, first outing on the new steel pier so a few tweaks required.

By the time I'd finished faffing with the PA the moon had dropped well down so - time to test the PA...

I went to NGC6995 first, no particular reason, then headed for the Cygnus Wall followed by the Iris neb and M31. By then it was after 2 so I called it a night somewhat reluctantly.

Anyway the images:

Camera; ASI 294 MC Pro with IDS NB-1 filter

Processing for both done in PI using some old darks as I didn't shoot any last night. No flats or bias either.

NGC 6995 was initially process using PI's batch process on 5x180s subs

The Wall wasn't so good using the batch process so I went through the individual steps separately. The Wall was 5x 300s subs.

Hope you like.

[MarkAR]

Very nice. Are you using a Planostar FF/reducer ?

Edited July 31, 2020 by MarkAR

[fwm891]

@MarkAR Yes. The 1x Planostar - no reduction in image scale.