Chris White finds this vexingThis is a fun one. NGC 891 is a spiral galaxy directly edge-on to us, showing a prominent dust lane. It’s very similar to our galaxy. I framed it this way to capture a few more faint NG Catalog galaxies in the upper-left, but when I annotated the image, the sheer number of other galaxies was overwhelming. Flip back and forth to see if you can pick out the faint fuzzy patches, each one a whole galaxy. About 1.25 hours of exposure. #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
Who’s a cute little galactic floof? You are NGC 898, that’s who! #astrophotography #astrodon #seestar
Greg Bell@stoneymonster @logicalelegance /me pets the soft galaxy
Ricky Hussmann@stoneymonster So cool. I’m glad to see everything came together for this.
Kernel Bob 
@stoneymonster Is this from the turnkey telescope you talked about in a recent Embedded.fm episode? If so, it's utterly unfair that you can get that kind of image so easily. 🙃
@kbob It is, but I did a lot of work processing it once I got it off the scope. It's internal processing does ok, but I get better results spending extra time offline.
@stoneymonster Does it let you export all the raw image data? How many GB are we talking?
@kbob Yes it does. For that particular set of image it’s about 2.5 GB of initial data, which expands to about 10x that in debayered copies + registered copies of that plus ancillary other metadata during processing. Part of that is because the limitations of the scope means 10s subframes are all it can do without startrails (they are improving that with an equatorial mode soon, so that should reduce the number of frames by 2-3x by allowing longer sub-exposures).
Brian N1FIY@stoneymonster I’ve really been enjoying these astro photos, Chris, and recall on a recent podcast that you mentioned it’s a relatively new scope. What make/model are you using?
@N1FIY Seestar S50 from ZWO! There's a smaller model now too with a wider field of view, the S30.
@stoneymonster Thanks! Will check that out, as I’ve been looking to upgrade my older Meade reflector. Some the az-el gears are wearing out, making tracking difficult. And being fully manual, astrophotography is completely out of the question!