To find out why the target had been only partially framed by plate solving, I retraced my steps from the night before setting up the scope on my lawn to be able to acquire the target without being obstructed by the house. I shot one test Ha frame and as suspected NINA was off target and cropped the nebula as it did the night before, so I re-framed the nebula manually to fit it all in the frame.
I intended replicating the SHO data set to match the previous night's set from Fairwood, but only managed 9 x 4 min Ha subs before being clouded out. I used DSS to do a quick mosaic stack of the combined Ha data only including the 7 x Ha 4 min sub data taken at Fairwood the previous night. The image was then processed in Pixinsight and Adobe CS2. A montage of some screen dumps taken during last night's capture process shows the issue comparing my results from the previous night. This was a useful exercise and one to watch out for next time when using NINA to target the Soul nebula!
The Ha only composition comprises 16 x 4 min subs (just over an hours total exposure) taken with an ASI 533mm Pro camera fitted to an Altair 60 EDF doublet refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR.
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