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WR-134 and the associated nebula

This image I snapped back in the summer as well. The blueish eye looking nebula is caused from the star WR-134, which is a Wolf-Rayet type star, pictured here in the center of the image. The star is so intense that it is blowing and pushing all that gas outwards. The star is just 5x the size of the sun but is over 400,000 times as luminous because it is so hot! Pretty cool!

This image I spent waaaaay too much time on, capturing as well as processing. This is about 80 hours of data half of which is RGB. The other half being Ha and OIII. The RGB data had a pretty bad artifact in it that thankfully I was able to get rid of in this edit. This nebula is extremely faint! Hope you like it! The starless version is pretty cool looking! Taken at

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 80ish hours

RGB 300s subs
Ha OIII 900s subs.

Telescope: AG Optical 14.5” iDK
Mount: Software Bisque MeII
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma RGB 3nmOIII
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with a Nuc computer
Capture Software: NINA
Processed in Pixinsight entirely, lightly

M17 aka The Swan Nebula

This was the first image I took when I sent my scope remote back in July. This was my test shot to make sure everything was operational. Honestly, I am quite surprised at the quality now that I’m looking back at it. At the time I didn’t really like it. But now seeing how little integration time there was on this, less than an hour total, it’s not so bad! Ha. Im trying to get all these images I’ve taken the last few months off of the astrophotography graveyard that my phone has turned into! Hope you like it! Taken at

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 50 minutes

RGB 300s subs

Telescope: AG Optical 14.5” iDK
Mount: Software Bisque MeII
Camera: FLI PL16803
Filters: Chroma RGB 3nmOIII
Focuser: Optec Gemini
Controlled with a Nuc computer
Capture Software: NINA
Processed in Pixinsight entirely, lightly

Here we got Barnard 150 aka The Seahorse nebula. This is considered a dark nebula since it’s just some dark dust up in the sky not being lit up by ionizing stars and hydrogen gas. Don’t kid yourself though, still got some star makin goin on in those dark clouds. She’s about 1200 light years away from earth near the constellation Cepheus. I see this picture and I see everything wrong with it. But at the end of the day, it’s still pretty cool to point a telescope at the sky and take pictures like this, with all her flaws, she still purdy and cool. Hope you like it!

Pixinsight process: linear fit, noiseX, blurX, channel combination, starX, histogram transformation, curves transformation, add stars, saturation.

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RGB

Total Integrarion: 6 hours

RGB 300s around 2 hrs ea

Telescope: Pentax 125SDP f/6.4
Mount: Software Bisque MyT
Camera: QHY268m
Filters: Chroma LRGB
Focuser: Optec Leo
Controlled with an Eagle3pro
Capture Software: The SkyX
Processed in Pixinsight entirely: tweaked in photoshop.