Same with the upstairs setup. Wanted three or three and a half hours, got a little less than two. And this one really needs more hours. But I'll keep working on it if the sky cooperates. This is NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula. Three versions. One wider one, with the star cluster M52, one closer up of just the Bubble, and a starless version for detail. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
@catherineryanhyde Very nice! I'm hoping to try to image this soon. My area is so light polluted I'm mostly limited to solar system and narrow band deep space.
@mike54 If your scope is big enough to do that good a job on Saturn you can probably manage well with just good filtering.
@catherineryanhyde Possibly, haven’t tried yet. Just got back into imaging last October, and was never much more than a novice prior. Got what I thought were pretty good images of M42 with R,G,B,HA filters and of Rosette Nebula with SII,OIII,HA filters in January (can likely find them in posts from then if interested). Those were with a Tak Epsilon 130D. Saturn was with a C9.25. Need to re-image Saturn. Didn’t realize I should’ve used UV/IR cut filter w/ASI224mc for more accurate colors.
@catherineryanhyde Thanks. I haven't used CounterSocial a lot so only discovered last night how to easily view all of a user's media. You have a lot of marvelous photos!
My yard is a Bortle 8, but will soon be 9 with many new subdivisions nearby. Astro club I belong to has a zone 5 dark site. Have not made it out there yet for various reasons.
Have been assembling a portable astrophotography kit to take on a trip to Jasper National Park next month.
@mike54 I'm luckier than most in that home is a 3-4 and I have a dark sky property that I'm going to put a small observatory on. It's more like a 2. I know not everybody's got it so good.
@catherineryanhyde That’s awesome! I have to drive ten hours to west Texas for skies like that. Unfortunately I keep missing the Texas Star Party in west Texas for various reasons.
Going to Jasper National Park in Alberta for their annual dark sky festival.
@mike54 That sounds great!
@mike54 Yeah, I found both, and they are excellent. I think just about everybody is a novice in this hobby. I don't use filters at all, I'm doing one-shot color with an astro-modified DSLR. But I'm also under a pretty dark sky.