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2nd Feb. 2012 :: Another Attempt at M1 and NGC2246

Things never go quite to plan do they...

So, tonight I received - for my efforts - a strange wispy artefact on my M1 image, this thing appears on all the 40 or so frames that I took... Any ideas?


M1 and a strange wispy artefact


I made a slightly better attempt at NGC2246, however it was so damn cold tonight that I had to abandon things before I got a really decent dataset, so I only had a couple of dark frames and no bias or flats. I guess that as ever - there's always next time! :)


Slightly Noisy Rosette Nebula (NGC2246)




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