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[alacant]

Hi everyone

This one is is good if you're going out or just want to get some sleep. Set the exposures going and come back when it's light.

It's so faint; you need all the time you can get. The end of darkness at Alicante today was 04:50 giving us around 4 hours. The sensor was well over 30º and yes, whilst there is noise, it's nothing like as bad as some of the stories of the impossibility of using a non cooled dslr would have you believe. Undoubtedly, the dither and lack of dark frames helped.

DSLR users, do have a go. It's faint but doable.

Thanks for looking and wishing you clear weekend skies.

700d on nt150s: shot entirely under control of the EKOS scheduler. calibration: Siril  processing: StarTools 1.8.505

[maw lod qan]

It looks incredible to me.

[david_taurus83]

Very nice! Unfortunately far to bright in my back garden. I have tried a number of times to get a pleasing image of this but its so faint and LP extraction leaves it very noisy. I am going camping next month to a dark site and this is on the shortlist for the Redcat/6D combo, weather permitting! 

[alacant]

7 hours ago, david_taurus83 said:

camping next month

Yeah, good luck. I hope it's clear for you. 

I agree with you on the light pollution. For faint stuff, it just has to be dark. We have however had some success from small towns, but only for the bright bit in the centre of the nebula.

[Petrol]

That's a great image. It was my first target when I built my roll off shed. As you say, it's faint and light pollution is a problem, as is the lack of dark skies this time of year. I would be very happy with that!