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Hi everyone,

Being the first clear nights for a long time, I was up till late last weekend (till 5am Saturday morning!). First of a series of images.

The open cluster M46 with a nice planetary embedded in it. The autoguiding is getting better but still not as I'd like it. Have changed to GuideDog as guiding software on Matthew's recommendation. It's excellent. 4 min individual exposures.

TG

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Hi TG,

Very nice !
You got the tracking right and a very even background, your flats must be excellent.
You pinned that NGC 2438 pretty well, I have not seen many of it,

Cheers

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Have to agree with JY on that!
Feels like I am looking into a jewellery box and there's the wife's hair band in there too ! :D Nice effort Tan Guan..
Am I mistaken or is this planetary nicer looking and more colourful than M57?

rich
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