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The Snake Nebula and friends!

This was one of the first targets I shot when I sent this scope remote. This has been on my list for a long time, but found it very difficult to shoot at home with the light pollution we have here. Its always fascinated me because of Barnard 68, the dark blob on the middle left. That dark region is often improperly labeled as the Bootes void, a region of space that is unexpectedly “empty”. Well, that’s actually not true, it’s just so dark, dense and cold it’s obscuring the stars behind it. It’s actually incredibly cold at around -431degreesF. Buuuuuur!!!! Anyhoo, It’s also fairly difficult to image here as it is low to the southern horizon so I had even more light pollution to shoot through and being a dark nebula in a dense star field, makes it even more difficult! So I was pretty excited when I got the chance to shoot from darker skies! The integration time here is low as I only had an hour or so each night that I was able to spend on target. Hope you like it! Taken at

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 3.5ish hours

RGB 300s subs

Telescope: AG Optical 14.5” iDK
Mount: Software Bisque MeII
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma RGB 3nmOIII
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with a Nuc computer
Capture Software: NINA
Processed in Pixinsight entirely, lightly

The Tulip Nebula.

This image I shot back in the summer but am just now getting around to posting it. It was my first time applying OIII to an RGB image and I think it turned out pretty nice! Gotta love dark, stable, clear skies! Taken at

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OIIIRGB

Total Integrarion: 25ish hours

RGB 300s subs
OIII 900s subs

Telescope: AG Optical 14.5” iDK
Mount: Software Bisque MeII
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma RGB 3nmOIII
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with a Nuc computer
Capture Software: NINA
Processed in Pixinsight entirely, lightly

This is my first light image since sending my scope to a remote hosting site in Texas. I have been completely blown away with what this scope can do in truly dark skies. This is just 5 hours of integration and I think it looks pretty nice for such little time on target. To get this level of detail from my house would have taken months and countless hours processing and still, I would have all kinds of issues in the final edit. Cannot wait to keep cranking them out! It is so much fun working with clean data from a dark sky site! Hope you like it too! Ha!

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 5ish hours

RGB 300s subs

Telescope: AGO 14.5” iDK
Mount: Software Bisque MEII
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma LRGB
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with an Eagle4 Pro
Capture Software: The SkyX
Processed in Pixinsight entirely: tweaked in photoshop.

Got a few targets on this one. I’ve been really loving this wide field set up. And while the camera definitely has its limitations, I’ve been really loving the beauty of such wide shots and that I still maintain some details even though it is so wide. I was hoping to add a fair amount of Ha to this one, but with the weather lately it has been challenging. So, I decided to pull my equipment down and give it all its annual checkup. I will definitely revisit this one next year.

We’ve got the Jellyfish nebula(IC 443) on the left side. That’s a supernova remnant that created a neutron star in the center. Pretty darn cool. The nebula on the bottom is an emission nebula called the monkey head nebula(NGC2174/75) that is mainly hydrogen gas being lit up by intense radiation and by stellar winds from the young stars in its center. And on the upper right are the star clusters M35(the small cluster) and NGC2168(the more open one). It’s pretty fun being able to get so many awesome and different parts of our galaxy in one shot. I’m excited for MW season already with this rig. Haha. Anyhoo. Hope you all enjoy. It was a fun one for me!

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 30ish hours

RGB 300s subs

Telescope: Vixen VSD100 f3.8
Mount: Software Bisque MyT
Camera: FLI ML50100
Filters: Chroma LRGB
Focuser: Optec Leo
Controlled with an Eagle3 Pro
Capture Software: The SkyX
Processed in Pixinsight entirely: tweaked in photoshop.

LDN 1622 aka the boogeyman nebula located near the constellation of Orion just on the outside of his right hand torso area. We’ve had so much going on lately, I don’t even know how much time I spent on this target. And I haven’t been able to do my typical workflow with my images lately. But this is an HaRGB image with a very heavy push of the Ha data. I’ll probably go back and rework it and try to make the dust there a more grey tone so it seems a little more natural, but I do kinda like this version. Hope you like it too!

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HaRGB

Total Integrarion: 🤷🏼‍♂️

RGB 300s subs
Ha 1800s subs

Telescope: AG Optical 14.5” iDK f/6 .7
Mount: Software Bisque Mx+
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma LRGB
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with an Eagle4 Pro
Capture Software: The SkyX
Processed in Pixinsight entirely: tweaked in photoshop.