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The Pinwheel Galaxy - Messier 101 Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Scope – TS Photoline 115mm f/6.96 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Imaging System: ZWO ASI533MC Pro – Gain 100, Offset 70, Temp -25°C Filter – Optolong L-Pro Image Details: Light: 35x240s Dark: 20x240s Flat: 20×9.156s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 20×9.156s Software: Image Capture – Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching – Siril 1.0 rc2 Starnett ++ – to separate nebula from stars Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: January 7, 2022 Photographed from the When Pigs Fly Observatory

The California Nebula - NGC1499 Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Scope – Canon EF 70-200mm @ 135mm f/4 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Imaging System: ZWO ASI533MC Pro – Gain 100, Offset 70, Temp -25°C Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Image Details: Light: 26x300s Dark: 20x300s Flat: 20x12.5s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 20x12.5 Software: Image Capture – N.I.N.A. (Night-time Imaging N Astronomy) – PhD2 Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching – Siril 1.0 rc2 Starnett ++ – to separate nebula from stars Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: January 28-29, 2022 Photographed from the When Pigs Fly Observatory

The Flaming Star Nebula - IC-405 Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Scope – TS Photoline 115mm f/6.96 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Imaging System: ZWO ASI533MC Pro – Gain 100, Offset 70, Temp -30°C Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Image Details: Light: 54x240s Dark: 30x240s Flat: 30×9.13s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 30×9.13s Software: Image Capture – Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching – Siril 0.99, DeepSkyStacker Starnett ++ – to separate nebula from stars Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: January 7, 2022 Photographed from the When Pigs Fly Observatory

The Whirlpool Galaxy - Messier 51 Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Scope – TS Photoline 115mm f/6.96 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro – Gain 100, Offset 70, Temp -30°C Image Details: Light: 60x240s Dark: 30x240s Flat: 30×0.662s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 30×0.662s Software: Image Capture – Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching – Siril 0.99, DeepSkyStacker Starnett ++ – to separate nebula from stars Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: January 20-21, 2022 Photographed from the When Pigs Fly Observatory

The Tadpoles Nebula - NGC-1893 & IC-410 Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Scope – TS Photoline 115mm f/6.96 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro – Gain 100, Offset 70, Temp -15°C Image Details: Light: 122x240s Dark: 50x240s Flat: 50×9.13s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 50×9.13s Software: Image Capture – Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching – Siril 0.99, DeepSkyStacker Starnett ++ – to separate nebula from stars Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: December 12-13, 2021 Photographed from the When Pigs Fly Observatory

IC-1396A - The Elephant Trunk Nebula This project was conceived as part of getting accustomed to the recent acquisition of a TS-115 APO and making it ready for use in the observatory. The Elephant Trunk Nebula was an object I got to know earlier this year so it seemed to be a good candidate for testing out the new scope. The telescopes used for the project are the Orion ED80T CF and a TS Optics Photoline 115mm APO Triplet. The cameras used to capture the data are a Canon 70D DSLR and a ZWO ASI533MC Pro. The final objective was to capture images that could be similarly scaled after the post processing and see which of them have more detail or artistic appeal. This collage of images represents several nights of photography using a combination of telescopes and cameras. As much as possible I tried to maintain consistency with these photographs in terms of the number of hours of exposures and calibration data for the target. The data was stacked and pre-processed using Siril 0.99.10.1. I used the same steps through the pre-processing to create the 16 bit TIFF for Starnett ++. After creating a starless image in Starnett the images were processed using a procedure I've developed for handling nebulae images in Photoshop. I made a concerted effort to replicate the process for each of the final images so as to closely match the final result. Hope you'll take a minute to examine each of the images and appreciate them for their merits. Projects like these bring out the citizen scientist in us all I believe. Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Telescopes – Orion ED80T CF, TS Photoline 115mm APO Triplet Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filters – Optolong L-Pro, Optolong L-eXtreme Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Details provided in image captions Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Capture Date: October~November 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Fly Observatory

NGC 1491 - The Fossil Footprint Nebula Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – TS Photoline 115mm APO Tripet Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 48x240s Dark: 40x240s Flat: 40x9.13s (25,000 ± 5%) Flat-Dark: 40x9.13s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Capture Date: November 8, 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Fly Observatory

IC-1396A - The Elephant Nebula Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Orion ED80T CF Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 62x180s Dark: 50x180s Flat: 50×26.31s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat – 50×26.31s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Capture Date: October 18, 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Can Fly Observatory

IC-1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM II Shot at … 135mm f/4 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 92x180s Dark: 50x180s Flat: 50×7.9s (30,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 50×7.9s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: September 9, 2021 Image taken at theWhen Pigs Fly Observatory

The Heart & Soul Nebulae ... with a side of Double Cluster Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM II Shot at … 70mm f/4 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 123x180s Dark: 50x180s Flat: 50×4.991s (30,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 50×4.991s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: September 6, 2021 Image taken at the When Pigs Fly Observatory

Messier 31 - The Andromeda Galaxy This image was compiled from data captured over three nights of imaging. It represents just over 10 hours of data. Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS USM II Shot at … 135mm f/4 Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 102x240s ….. 33x240s ….. 23x240s Dark: 50x240s Flat: 50x5s (32,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 50x5s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: August 24, 30 & September 1 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Fly Observatory

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Orion ED80T CF Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-eXtreme Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 50x240s Dark: 30x240s Flat: 30x5s (30,000 ± 5%) Flat-Dark: 30x5s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Capture Date: August 15, 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Fly Observatory

NGC 281 - The Pacman Nebula Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Lens – Orion ED80T CF Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 51x240s Dark: 30x240s Flat: 30×0.75s (25,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat – 30×0.75s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 – image capture Siril 0.99 – Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing – Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Capture Date: August 4, 2021 Taken at the When Pigs Can Fly Observatory

The Moon - After a long night of photographing the sky, this shot was "last light" Telescope Equipment: Mount – Celestron CGEM DX Telescope – Orion ED80T CF Guider- Orion StarShoot Autoguider Filter – Optolong L-Pro Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro Image Details: Light: 30x180s Dark: 25x240s Flat: 25x0.4s (20,000 ADU ±5%) Dark-Flat: 25x0.4s Software: Astro Photography Tools (APT) – PhD2 - image capture Siril 0.99 - Pre-Processing, Stacking, Stretching Starnett ++ (to separate nebula from stars) Post Processing - Adobe Photoshop CC, Astronomy Tools Action Set for Photoshop Image Taken: August 15, 2021 At the When Pigs Can Fly Observatory .