NGC40 & Surrounding area

[AstroGS]

This is a beautiful faint nebula surrounding the NGC40 planetary nebula, which @gorann has named "Burning Blue Dragon". Here is the image with a almost 21hrs worth of data, over 2 nights.

245 x 300sec lights

100 each for Darks, Bias and Flats

Stallamira ED90 Triplet + Flattener/Reducer 0.80x + 2600MC + Antlia "gold" dualband filter 2" + ZWO AM5

The 2nd day the guiding was the best i ever had with any mount - consistent at 0.4"-0..45" the whole night; there were even periods during the session that it achieved 0.28" (!!!) - excellent. (attaching a screenshot from that session).

I had an issue with NGC40 as it came out over-saturated and i had to apply a heavy HDR MT in PI - it is not perfect but, it ok to just make out the core.

 

Thank you @gorann 🙂

 

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Edited December 20, 2022 by George Sinanis