27 hours HaLRGB on the Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula.

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2025 off to a decent start with the weather, but let's see if it holds.

20 hours LRGB on Messier 78 with the RC6.

20-minute timelapse, with 10-sec intervals, on the lunar eclipse.

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Yes. Here’s my M17 from last year in narrowband.

It’s interesting how much different, and more stunning, M17 in particular looks in SHO vs RGB.

I use PixInsight with the Russ Croman plugins and a few of Bill Blanshan’s scripts/processes. For something quick like this, I have a few presets for each saved and run the WBPP masters through them. No more than 10 min to get an idea of how much more I want to capture.

Been cloudy past few nights, so here's a draft of the Wizard nebula. Minimal processing; about 8 hrs of SHO data.

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That blend of blue and green is really nice. Neither one is overpowering.

At only 1M ly, wouldn’t the galactic halos be interacting already and lead to a future merger into a single elliptical galaxy?

This morning’s moon, shot on the Seestar S50

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Oh, there’s a few southern hemisphere targets on my list for when I can get some remote time. Tarantula, Fighting Dragons of Ara, Statue of Liberty, etc.

Dragons can be possible from here - but everything has to line up perfectly for when they peak, and it’s only a few nights a year.

I’ve shot this many times now, but each time I manage to pull out more detail.

M16 - The Eagle, with a focus on the pillars of creation.

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In addition to not following directions, going over the limit is just more room to make mistakes.

I use a laser to mechanically align the focuser and a tribahtinov for the mirrors. Seems to work well and is fairly quick.

I got an adapter made that physically separates the image train from the primary, and it’s made collimation much easier.

First light (and then some) with the RC6 from about a month or so ago. M20, the Trifid nebula.

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Wouldn’t you want a large set of SN 1a as the basis, rather than 10 handpicked ones?

Cherry-picked data can show anything.

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Iris nebula

Got about 21 hours on the Iris nebula through a TPO RC6. #astrophotography