52 Cygni and a wisp of the Western Veil Nebula, making me want to tear out the ir filter in my little Canon M200 😹
Don’t get me wrong, I was delighted to see the blue show up with a decent amount of detail, but the faint traces of reds just make me want more.
This is 168x 30 seconds at iso1600 through my 7” f/4.5 reflector on homemade equatorial mount with RA drive only.
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The Helix nebula. This is only about 50 minutes or so integration. I should probably be getting more time into tonight but instead I’m trying to see what I can get of the Veil nebula at 800mm fl. I really like this though even if it is a little grainy.
Canon M200, 7” f/4.5 Newtonian, 1.1x coma corrector, homemade equatorial mount with RA drive only.
112x 30 seconds at iso1600
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Messiers 31, 32, 33, and 110; our celestial neighborhood.
Andromeda Galaxy at top, flanked by dwarf galaxies M32 and M110, 2.5ish million light years away; Triangulum Galaxy lower right; 2.7ish million.
Mirach (Beta Andromedae,) mag. 2 star in Andromeda, center; 197 light years.
Open cluster Caldwell 28, lower left; 1400 light years.
Canon M200, Yashica DSB 50mm/1.9 at f/4.
96x 30 seconds at iso1600, tracked and stacked with calibration frames.
#andromeda #galaxy #astronomy #Astrodon

Moon and Uranus last night. Uranus is the tiny dot to the right of the cloud. Spent about an hour waiting for the cloud cover to present the right combination of filtering the brightness of the moon and leaving a clear spot for the much dimmer planet.
#moon #planet #uranus #astronomy #Astrodon

The Flame and Horsehead Nebulae, with the blue supergiant Alnitak between them.
Canon M200, Zeiss 2.8/180, uv/ir cut filter, SW Star adventurer 2i.
120x 30 seconds at f/4, iso800
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A couple nice wide views of the Milky Way last night.
Sagittarius, Scutum, and Aquila.
Cygnus and Lyra with the Summer Triangle of Deneb, Altair, and Vega.
Started shooting Cassiopeia and Cepheus, but it got cloudy.
Canon M200, Canon EF-M 22mm f/2 stm at f/4, SW Star Adventurer 2i.
40x 30 seconds each at iso800, stacked in Deep Sky Stacker with 20 each dark, flat, dark flat, and bias frames.
Pretty impressed with this little pancake lens
#milkyway #space #Astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography

Jupiter and Ganymede early this morning.
A nice sized dark hot spot north of the Great Red Spot.
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My two new Sparrowhawks out on the porch. Fully fledged and awaiting flight.
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Learned how to use @gimp to stretch the histogram in my stacked images and liking it a lot better that what I had been doing. Getting better colors as well.
This is otherwise the same Lagoon Nebula image I posted yesterday.
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