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Galaxy season is not exactly my favourite season although there have been years with lots of clear skies. I would prefer to have this imaging time available in winter since winter has much more targets suitable for my setup. So before imaging some small galaxies I went for LBN 801 which is a very dim nebula in Lyn. I couldn't see anything in the single subs but based on the star pattern I was sure I was imaging the correct region. So I gathered 19 hrs over three nights and stacked it. This is the result:



See https://app.astrobin.com/i/1viwad for details.

The faint parts suffer from some mottling and the image could be sharper overall (also the stars) but basically I am not unhappy with the result.

Regards
Stefan

A nice one, Stefan. This object shows an unusual overall appearance, in terms of colour - very cool. I don't see too much mottling. And the slightly fuzzy look - well I guess that's OK considering that this is obviously an extremely faint nebula.

Best regards, Dietmar.

Oh, forgot to add: It's fascinating to see, what your B4 location is worth compared to my (maybe sometimes) B5. This makes it even more impressive what our friends under B8 or worse are able to achieve.

Thanks, Dietmar.

I totally agree with regard to sky quality. I don't know if I would get anything out of Bortle 6+ data. I am probably not good enough with processing. Maybe I'd go for HSO narrowband only. With mono cam, filter wheel and Chroma filters all the way until I'm broke But the images would probably be pretty cool despite the sky quality...

Regards
Stefan