More DSO's from March

[VilleM]

Hi, weather has been excellent for about a week now. Here is two finished projects from my remote observatory in Finland.
Both can be viewed larger on my blog: www.evenfall.space/post/eye-of-cepheus and www.evenfall.space/post/whale-galaxy

Iris nebula:
Skywatcher Esprit 100mm f/5.5, EQ6, ZWO ASI1600MM-C, TS Optics LRGB.
L: 274x120s, R/G/B 100x120s each. Total exposure time 19 hours.

Whale galaxy:
Skywatcher Esprit 100mm f/5.5, EQ6, ZWO ASI1600MM-C, TS Optics LRGB.
L: 90x120s, R/G/B: 30x120s each. Total exposure time 6 hours.

[peter shah]

Great set of images.... nice to hear the skies have been clear or you, I think Finland is probably the only other place that has more cloud than the UK 

[VilleM]

Thank you peter. Hah yes I think I live in the cloudiest place on the planet. But I guess we all think so sometimes - especially when you buy new gear!

[MartinB]

At least you have a nice dark sky.  The Iris is wonderful

14 hours ago, peter shah said:

Great set of images.... nice to hear the skies have been clear or you, I think Finland is probably the only other place that has more cloud than the UK 

 

10 hours ago, VilleM said:

Thank you peter. Hah yes I think I live in the cloudiest place on the planet. But I guess we all think so sometimes - especially when you buy new gear!

I once looked at cloud data for countries and locations around the world.  There is an area in Canada that gets more cloud than the UK and also a small island in the south atlantic.  Other than this the UK was tops.  

[VilleM]

Thank you MartinB. Yes the skies are very good, the obsy is located in Bortle 3 -class skies. Here you can see a timelapse from there: https://www.evenfall.space/post/skywatch-10th-of-march