rdmFeb 1, 2025

So last night I had a go at some fairly challenging targets.

This post is not about them, well it is, but it is really about what I did while my Dwarf3 was working on things that should really be left to a proper dark sky area, not the middle of suburbia.

I started the night with my Dwarf3 having a go at Barnard's Loop, using the wide angle lens. This is a massive structure, but very faint, and after 20 frames at 90s, I gave up, because the light pollution just killed any hope.

While that was running though, I pointed on of my DwarfIIs at the Tarantula Nebula, and got a solid two hours out of it before I crashed and shut everything down.

This is the result after some smoothing and enhancement in Google Photos.

480*15s@80

#astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #DwarfII #dwarf3

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But ... the photo of the Tarantula took a lot more time than the time I had the Dwarf3 running on Barnards Loop. So what did I do for the rest of the time?

My plan was to shoot the Lamba Orionis Nebula, but I entered the coordinates incorrectly, and ended up centered on IC423 - a tiny nebula on the belt of Orion in between Mintaka and Al Nilam.

As it turns out, this region also contains the recorded but commonly regarded as non-existent NGC1990.

It also has some very faint bits of other nebulosity that apparently don't have a name.

So here it is with the colours boosted and the annotations on the other image explaining what all the various bits are and how they can be used in a court... no, wait, that's someone else's story.

60x90s@80 Dwarf3 Post in Google Photos

#Astronomy #astrophotography #Astrodon #Nebula #Orion #IC423

Feb 1, 2025 at 5:47pmWeb
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As for Barnards Loop ... here is the first few frames

It is not stacked, so it is heavily artifacted.