The weather god means it well and sends us a few beautiful days and nights with only a little bit of moon. According to the prediction, this is supposed to stay 4 to 5 days, even if the nights are not always cloudless. So I ring the final countdown at IC 2574 and parallel the cone nebula, which has now mellowed to a bicolor mosaic.

With the galaxy IC2574 I am now at 38 luminances and 9.5 hrs which is now nearly enough. My intention to clearly show the galactic cirrus I believe I can not realize. The current stack shows only little of it, since the nights so far were not transparent enough.

And this is the cone nebula (NGC2264) ready in H-Alpha. I like to make a bicolor mosaic out of it.

26.03.2017

The last night for IC 2574 was very successful. Overall, I was now able to collect 9 hours of luminance and over 11 hours of color. How weak the galaxy is, can be seen, that despite the actually quite comfortable data volume the processing turns out very difficult. Cirrus can not be seen at all - unfortunately. Here I am probably coming to the limits of what is feasible for my location. After the final calibration and processing in Pixinsight, the RGB raw image looks as follows:

Here is the finaly processd image ...