A Short, Late Season M42 (Todd Stephens)

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A Short, Late Season M42

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A Short, Late Season M42

I haven't shot M42 in a few years, so I wanted to give it another go with my new AT60EDP and ASI2600MC-P. M42 is low on the horizon and gets into the treeline quickly, so I could only get a handful of subs over a couple different nights. This is a total of 83 60-second subs at gain 100/offset 30, and 10 180-second subs because I messed up the scheduler (I was going to have it switch to the Rosette as it's a little higher).

Shot with my AT60EDP petzval scope, CEM40, and ASI2600MC-P. Calibrated with 50 each darks, flats, and 300 bias. Because why not. Captured with Stellarmate OS X and processed in PI via WBPP, SPCC, BXT, NXT, GHS Saturation, SXT, MaskedStretch, curves, PixelMath. C&C welcome! Might have gone overboard on the saturation, but I kind of like it.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	9408546
PixInsight job	Y2JZRE9MV4KBUSAKM8WO6VS1ZE8RV3M1
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h35m38s.77
RA (top/left)	05h39m30s.27
RA (top/right)	05h43m15s.79
RA (bottom/right)	05h31m49s.29
RA (bottom/left)	05h27m59s.11

Dec (center)	-05°15′30″.6
Dec (top/left)	-07°43′21″.10
Dec (top/right)	-03°25′03″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-02°47′34″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	-07°05′42″.3

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