RASA8 project hit a pause. The Chroma 5nm filters do not suit for F2.0 system at all. Now going back to the Astronomik 12nm filters…
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Backyard – IC405 – Flaming Star Nebula
First all-backyarder into the winter of 2019. Good thing is that -20C sensor temperature is back. It’s also my first IC405 attempt. Plan changed couple…
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The Flying Bat, the Giant Squid & the Little Friend
… The plan was to go to TAS-Atoka dark site one more time for the Ou4 … Looking at the weather over the new moon…
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The 1st APOD! – Western Veil, Pickering’s Triangle & The “Funnel”
APOD (2019/09/19): https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190919.html
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Western Veil, Pickering’s Triangle & The “Funnel”
This is the third and probably the last summer “All-Backyard” project for 2019 – all data, Ha, S-II, O-III and R/G/B are imaged from my…
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Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Hubble Palette
This is the second “All-Backyard” project – all the data captured at home, including narrowband channels and RGB channels. By far this is the largest…
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Dark Molecular Cloud in NGC 7000
This is an “All-Backyard” project – all data from my bortle class 9 backyard under the moon, including Ha, S-II, O-III and R/G/B star layers.…
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M42 – Orion Nebula (Revisit with Nikon D500)
First time giving Astro-Modified Nikon D500 a “decent” treatment 🙂 – this time, with FSQ-85EDP and riding a real astrophotography mount. Thought that I owe…
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