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Rosette Nebula
Coachella Valley Astronomy replied to Coachella Valley Astronomy's topic in Imaging - Deep Sky
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The Rosette Nebula taken in Cathedral City, CA I've wanted to image the Rosette nebula for some time now, but with my Celestron 6se telescope it was not really feasible due to the large focal length of the scope. The Rosette nebula is huge! I decided to give it a try with my new Orion ST80, and I could not be happier with how it turned out. It is certainly not a Hubble image, but I did the best I could under light polluted skies, and man does it look beautiful. 5 hours total exposure time Canon 450d Orion ST80 Orion Skyglow filter Celestron AVX mount Stacked in DSS Edited it CS6 and LR http://coachella-astronomy-astrophotography.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-rosette-nebula.html
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From the album: Planets
Jupiter, Io, Ganymede, and Europa© Coachella Valley Astronomy and Astrophotography
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From the album: Planets
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Why so many clouds?
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We live on a little rock in the North Atlantic, similar latitude to Moscow,. Westerly winds pick up moisture from the gulf stream and bring it over us in the form of clouds. The Westerly's meet the continental patterns and so can get blocked over us or pass up our West side. We also sit at the meeting point of the Polar Cell and the Ferrel Cell and they mix at our Latitude to create cloud. We sit at the meeting point of 4 major weather boundries and the result is cloud, lots of cloud, and...
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