2024-11-02:  NGC6779 M56

NGC6779 (M56) imaged on 07 Sep 2024 at Buford Mountain Conservation Area.  The telescope was a 200 mm aperture, 730 mm focal length F/3.65 Boren-Simon PowerNewton Astrograph with 0.73x focal reducer and coma corrector.  The imaging camera was a QSI683wsg-8 with 31 mm Astrodon II filters and cooled to -15C.  It was off-axis guided using PHD2.  The system was mounted on a Losmandy G11G2 equatorial head on a permanent pier.  The system was controlled with Sequence Generator Pro and PHD2 and the image was processed in PixInsight.

Luminance:  15 frames x 5 minutes binned 1x1.  RGB:  7 frames each x 5 minutes binned 2x2.  Total integration time of 3 hours.

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Creation time ............ 2024-11-02 05:20:53 UTC

Creation software ........ PixInsight 1.8.9-3 / ImageSolver 6.2.12 (Windows)

Reference catalog ........ Gaia DR3

Resolution ............... 1.470 arcsec/px

Rotation ................. -2.721 deg

Observation start time ... 2024-09-07 02:27:35 UTC

Observation end time ..... 2024-09-07 05:35:41 UTC

Geodetic coordinates .....  90 40 49 W  37 42 55 N  300 m

Focal distance ........... 757.70 mm

Pixel size ............... 5.40 um

Field of view ............ 1d 21' 4.3" x 1d 1' 10.7"

Image center ............. RA: 19 16 41.456  Dec: +30 11 08.15  ex: +0.074325 px  ey: -0.039101 px