IC417 - The Spider Nebula (Phil Hoppes)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 24 Aur · 24 phi Aur · HD243426 · HD243461 · HD243522 · HD243537 · HD243555 · HD243572 · HD243607 · HD243638 · HD243639 · HD243657 · HD243680 · HD243825 · HD243840 · HD243871 · HD243950 · HD244060 · HD244096 · HD244111 · HD244283 · HD244487 · HD281061 · HD281152 · HD35520 · HD35556 · HD35633 · HD35653 · HD35681 · HD35742 · And 10 more.

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IC417 - The Spider Nebula

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IC417 - The Spider Nebula

Still working on zeroing in my guiding on my NYX. Shot this last night. This image is more a testimony to the powers of Pixinsight and the RCAstro plugins than my astrophotography prowess. Guiding on this was actually quite bad IMHO. I was following some suggestions on CN. With my previous settings I was getting around 0.6" - 0.8" RMS error in my guiding. On this effort I was more in the area of 1.3"-1.6" so almost 2x worse. Almost every sub had some ovalness to the detailed stars over the entire field. RCAstro BXT plugin rounded things back up but I need to get the guiding dialed in better. I'm close but I have a few ideas where I need to look. Phd2 keeps a nice log so it is possible to go back and look at things.

I'd not heard of this object before but I wanted a nice target I could track most of the night. I was able to image until about 2am when the clouds rolled in. The weather report showed I would get clouds around that time so I just programmed NINA to stop around 2:30am. That worked perfect. When I got up the skies were completely socked in so that part worked well. I will try again with some different settings tonight and see if I can get things back to at least where they were and hopefully a tad better.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	8800724
PixInsight job	0EN26934WXM3JK4ZAW46G4DL6Q845FB6
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h29m06s.27
RA (top/left)	05h31m28s.70
RA (top/right)	05h24m51s.58
RA (bottom/right)	05h26m47s.20
RA (bottom/left)	05h33m19s.93

Dec (center)	+34°19′53″.0
Dec (top/left)	+35°04′31″.9
Dec (top/right)	+34°29′02″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°35′07″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+34°10′13″.9

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