LBN437, a complete Gecko

[Fegato]

Well, I was wrong in my previous post, a brief clear spell yesterday evening allowed me to complete this 2 panel mosaic. Panel 1 - 25th August, Panel 2-  6th November, just about sums up the recent weather.

LBN 437 is a molecular cloud in Lacerta, and it sits on top of the faint emission nebula Sharpless 2-126. I wanted to capture the tail of dust up to the top right in this image, aiming to balance the emission and other detail to the left, and I think that composition works quite well.

I find that StarXT is pretty good at leaving behind a range of small galaxies, and the main issue I had with processing this was avoiding these becoming large bright blobs! One or two aren't quite right, and I should probably try again. I guess PI's GAME script is probably the best way of dealing with these, so I'll probably have a go with that. With this I just used range masks...

RASA 11 on CEM120, ZWO ASI2400MC Pro, about 2h 10' of 30" exposures across 2 panels. No filter.

[WolfieGlos]

Wow, nice! Glad you got to finish it at last, that’s a long time between panels!