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Unfortunately, I have pretty terrible visibility to the east, so my window of observation is pretty narrow on targets like M42. I can get maybe 3 hours a night between the time a target clears a building and then disappears behind some trees on its w...

The "problem"  with imaging galaxies is that a lot of them occupy only small areas of the sky. They may be HUGE objects, but for many of them, their distance makes their apparent size in the night sky very small. That, however, is not the case with t...

NGC 7822 - Question Mark NebulaThis may be as much as I'm going to do for now. I have added a significant amount of broadband capture time to this, but it has only added to the blue channel, plus RGB stars. I still need to learn how to do a true HaRG...

Third time's the charm. After 2 previous attempts that didn't go as planned due to "learning experiences", I went back out Saturday night and gave it a final go. I found a better location, set up and went for it.Processing the image was definitely an...

Elephant Trunk NebulaThe Elephant Trunk Nebula is contained within a larger area of ionized gas designated IC 1396. The entire structure (IC 1396) is approximately 2400 light years away from the Earth, in the constellation Cepheus. It is approximatel...