NGC7000 - North America Nebula in HOO palette

[Peds]

With my rotator still being serviced, I figured I'd try and play around with improving tilt using my camera's built-in tilt adjustment to get a better feel for how challenging this process is. I followed Chris White's document, on using ASTAP and NINA's Hocus Focus and got pretty close to eliminating it with only a couple of turns here and there, using the Stowaway and AP92FF (field flattener). Tired of fiddling with tilt adjustments and not wanting to waste a clear night, I turned to NGC7000 and managed to get about 3hr 35' of Ha and OIII before dawn.

This is only my second time with bicolour processing and I'm still trying to find a colour balance and processing routine that pleases me. I figured since this was a night of testing, I might as well test a new colour scheme. This time, I used the ForaxxPaletteUtility. This produces a very different result to the vanilla HOO I'm used to. Going forward, I'll likely have to spend some time taking short RGB exposures for better star colours if I use this utility again.

As usual, all exposures were unguided after running a dec-arc model with the Mach2GTO-L from my very light polluted backyard in London, UK. More details on my astrobin page.

Thanks for looking!

 

[peter shah]

beautiful job

[Peds]

41 minutes ago, peter shah said:

beautiful job

Thanks Peter!

- Pedro

[Sunshine]

So much detail, stars are beautiful pinpoints, amazing!

[Peds]

10 hours ago, Sunshine said:

So much detail, stars are beautiful pinpoints, amazing!

Thanks! Took a little bit of time to wrap my head around the spatial geometry to get the tilt out. But once I understood what I was doing it wasn’t so bad! The AP92FF corrects the IMX571 sensor really well.