Heart and Soul HOO (Duane Melvin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD14510 · HD14552 · HD14817 · HD15069 · HD15238 · HD15239 · HD15250 · HD15382 · HD15522 · HD15557 · HD15558 · HD15570 · HD15629 · HD15640 · HD15665 · HD15785 · HD15829 · HD15850 · HD15851 · HD15862 · HD16038 · HD16088 · HD16183 · HD16218 · HD16349 · HD16410 · HD16429 · HD16506 · HD16507 · HD16556 · And 106 more.

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Heart and Soul HOO

10-19-2024 Bortle 6 and bright full moon one night session
First light with ASI2600mm and Using ASIair Plus!
Focusing, Guiding, plate solving to target, exposure sequencing. Everything except polar alignment was performed
using ASIAir with the ASIAir Plus app running on my laptop.

Ha 25 exposures 300 Seconds Antlia 3nM filter with camera gain =0
O-III 25 exposures 300 Seconds Antlia 3nM filter with camera gain =101 (bad should have used 0)
Filters in Starizona magnetic tray

no darks were implemented (yet) and the image was not cropped... next rev coming
with -10C sensor temperature

ZWO ASI2600mm APS-C 16 bits
ZWO mini 120 guide cam

William Optics 68 septuplet astrograph Pleiades
SVBony wrap heaters

Pole Master exact NCP alignment system
ASIair aquisition system
Deep sky stacker
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Tech Talk
Still working on making the polar alignment worthwhile time-wise using the ASIAir PA system.... Just does not work right!
I believe my trees are the issue. They are very close to Polaris and plate-solving keeps failing in PA of ASIAir!

Pole Master is still my favorite NCP to RA tool. Hands down!! I did the NCP alignment using both ASIAir and Polemaster simultaneously on the laptop.

I performed control of everything using Alienware I7 laptop (no cellphone was used for ASIAir APP)
I.E. To do NCP align, I used the ASIair Plus for the telescope slewing button controls, AND the Pole Master screen software all on one laptop only.... WOOHOO
Camera gain needs to be 0!! Very muddy OIII exposures with ASI2600mm gain at 101. Lessons learned.

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PixInsight job	8YYS2Y81Y3IKEM4T8HNBRNM9DJ2S2VKD
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h43m22s.32
RA (top/left)	02h18m52s.30
RA (top/right)	02h46m37s.20
RA (bottom/right)	03h06m49s.17
RA (bottom/left)	02h39m30s.48

Dec (center)	+61°05′34″.1
Dec (top/left)	+61°41′58″.1
Dec (top/right)	+58°07′42″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°13′28″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+64°03′31″.9

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