NGC6823, the Cloud sculpting cluster and associated nebulosity

AstroDMx Capture was used to capture 2h 5min of 5min exposures of NGC6823, the Cloud sculpting cluster and associated nebulosity with an SV605CC OSC camera, an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with an 0.8 Reducer/flattener and a Pegasus FocusCube v2. An Altair 2” magnetic filter holder version 2 was placed in the optical train and contained an Altair quadband filter. The equipment was mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount. An SVBONY SV165 guide-scope fitted with a QHY-5II-M guide camera was mounted on the imaging scope. The mount and focuser were controlled by AstroDMx Capture via an INDI server on the Linux imaging computer. PHD 2 was used for autoguiding and was running on a separate Linux computer.

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The equipment used

AstroDMx Capture saving 5 minute subs of NGC6823

The image data were calibrated, stacked and partly processed in PixInsight and further processed in GraXpert, SetiAstroSuite and Gimp.

SetiAstroSuite non-stellar sharpening a super resolution version of the image

The image data were calibrated, stacked and partly processed in PixInsight and further processed in GraXpert, SetiAstroSuite and Gimp.

NGC6823, the Cloud sculpting cluster

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin