NGC 1579 from last night

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Dunmunro
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NGC 1579 from last night

Post by Dunmunro » 21 Jan 2026, 18:37

NGC 1579 from last night; a night of good seeing!

10in SCT at F8 via a Starizona LF SCT reducer, ASI071 MC Pro camera, 53 x 5min ( 4hrs 25min) subs, ASI178 MM guide camera, on a CEM120 mount. All aspects of image acquisition, centring, autofocus and OAG autoguiding, starting with the mount parked, was robotically controlled by Astroart-9 SP3. All processing with AA9 SP3.

Processing history:
07) Flip horizontal
06) Multiscale Lowpass 0 30 30 90
05) Local histogram equalization 10 1.5 100 0
04) DDP 95 15 2 50 50 0 0
03) Histogram stretch 65535 2467 13075 -1 0
02) Deconvolution Richardson Lucy 15 2 90 20
01) White balance 4 -1 -1 -1 2 -1 -1 -1
( sigma-sum stacking plus flats and darks )

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