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NEW IMAGE OF NGC 1499 WITH MEKIB BLUE GIANT
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12/10/2023 5:10 PM
Thanks for your help. I am having a lot of fun with this camera and the capture software. Sharp Cap 4+ is quite powerful but it has a learning curve. 
12/10/2023 3:16 PM
I understand that, Aubrey. I sometimes wind up without a good flat, and a bad flat is worse than nothing. Lightroom has a graduated circle brush that I have found to be very effective at taking out the center gradient, better yet, Astro Pixel Processor has a step that removes gradients, and it slaps down a center gradient like it was never there. 
12/1/2023 4:30 PM
Hi Jeff .

Sharp eye. Yes I did because I don't have a flat screen for the AT 102. I only have a screen for the 10" RC. The 102 is in test phase as it sits on top of the AT 10" RC.
I am trying to learn the in and out of the QHY 168 Color and The capture software.

All my imaging and calibration is remote.



Aubrey
12/1/2023 11:00 AM
Nice image Aubrey, but did you miss the flats? 
11/23/2023 12:49 PM

I have been trying to hone my skills with the QHY 168 color camera. Last night with about 75% full moon, I shot this image of the California Nebula and its large neighbor Menkib.


Menkib is only about 1 million years old and a very hot blue giant. You can see that it provides a nice blue halo to the nice red nebula of NGC 1499.


That was about 50 minutes on my Astro Tech 102mm ED refractor.


Happy Thanksgiving.


Aubrey
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