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So here is the 2nd narrowband effort from my remote imaging in Green Valley, AZ. This was collected over a handful of nights in April and May of this year. The post processing was again time consuming, but not as bad as my Elephant Trunk, both because this is a brighter object, and also because...

Eagle Nebula in modified SHO (Hubble) palette

So here finally 'developed' is my 2nd from my remote astro setup. This looks towards the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, a very rich area that has galaxies large and small strewn across this patch of sky. I have not counted them all, but I think between 20 - and 30 galaxies in this one, some of which...

So this is hopefully a tantalizer of what will prove to be a number of images I am going to be able to finally post. This is the last thing I collected while my friend was down in AZ the first time, putting the last 48 minutes into this to cap off about 37 hours of data collection. It will take...

So in spite of pulling the plug on my trip to AZ due to coronavirus concerns, with my friend's generous help I have been able to have my gear set up and do some checkout and even a little imaging. The weather has been usable most of the nights, and now that my gear is assembled, I could...