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New Years eve, Champagne and three Sharpless objects


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After midnight on New Year's eve, with plenty of Champagne🥂 in my CPU🤪, the sky cleared, so at 2 AM I could not stop myself from doing some semi-drunk astrophotographywink.png. As you see I just about managed to fit three Sharpless objects into the RASA 8 FOV. I was imaging with my dual-RASA rig but checking the subs in the morning (or rather afternoon) I realized that one of the scopes was a bit too much out of focus, but at least nothing got broken👍 and I had usable data from one scope.

Sh2-217 and Sh2-219 are bright planetary nebulae (I presume), while Sh2-221 is a huge but very faint supernova remnant also known as SNR G160.4+02.8.

So, imaged 1st Jan 2022 with a RASA8 and ASI2600MC with a IDAS NBZ filter (Dual-band Ha and Oiii) on a Mesu200 mount. 40 x 5 min at gain 100 = a bit over 3 hours.

Cheers, Göran

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1 hour ago, Adreneline said:

A good start to the year Göran - let's hope there are many more to come!

Gott Nyår År!

Adrian

Tack och Gott Nytt År själv Adrian!

Göran

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Happy New Year Goran, a great result especially as you were under the influence!
 

I thought at first glance you had imaged the Spaghetti Nebula, as by a strange coincidence this also has a bright compact nebula adjacent to it. It was outside the FOV on my RASA image but it’s on my SY135 FOV. This area makes for a great large mosaic, just right for your dual rig…☺️

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6 hours ago, tomato said:

Happy New Year Goran, a great result especially as you were under the influence!
 

I thought at first glance you had imaged the Spaghetti Nebula, as by a strange coincidence this also has a bright compact nebula adjacent to it. It was outside the FOV on my RASA image but it’s on my SY135 FOV. This area makes for a great large mosaic, just right for your dual rig…☺️

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Thanks Steve!

Yes, it is also almost the same size as the Spaghetti nebula, which I once imaged with my first RASA8. However, I would need a mosaic, as you say, to also capture that bright PN. Actually, my current Spaghetti is missing a bit in the direction of the PN so I really should put it on my to-do list👍

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