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  1. Comet Hunter

    NC Arboretum Christmas Lights

    Christmas Lights taken at the Ashville last Friday night. Burrrr 35 deg that night. Why as a beginner do I seem to try to take the hardest imagery? Lights, brightness, dimness, different colors all hit my sensors at the same time lol Feel free to point out improvement suggestions for next...
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    SH2-221 Redo (In Christmas Colors)

    So my original post of SH2-221 had 12.5 hours of data. As an experiment, i more than doubled my data, ending up with 28.5 hours to see what would happen. (that’s 341 (5min) light frames) wew! focal length was 334m focal ratio was 4.7. Antlia ALP_T 5nm filter and I was surrounded by...
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    SH2-221 A very dim object

    Difficalt to capture and process over 2 nights I ended up with 12.5 hrs of/300 sec light frames Scope was at a 335 fl. 2600mc pro and the antila ALP-T 5 nm filter.
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    IC405 and NGC1883 2 for one!

    2 for one. Taken last night, captured 9 1/4 hours. WOGT 71, Asi2600MC, Antila ALP-T nm filter. 1st one I used my normal process. 2nd one I used the new Veralux process. I think in the future I will experiment with the adding channels from both versions to make a hybrid. Of these 2, which...
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    DSLR Sky Trackers?

    So I got an early Christmas present from my son: an i-optron skytracker pro. I'm looking for a light kit to match with my R8 and existing tripod that's easy to move about and set up, primarily for Milky Way shots. I have enough guided scopes for my bigger scopes and deep space stuff. The...
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    Anyone try this new automatic stretching scrip?

    I repocess the Wizard with this new script called VeraLux. Thoughts? This may save me from always over cooking my images?
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    Lost Northern Lights image

    So I was relooking through my Northern Lights folder and found this one I hadn't processed yet and it may be the most detailed of all of them But as I tend to over cook my images I would like feedback of everyones thoughts the processing on this one? Happy Thanksgiving! Ed
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    Mt Dora Fl

    My wife and I were in Mt Dora Fl for a wedding last weekend (Same town as the bubble's were taken) and we had the morning to kill so we stopped at a local park where I took these radom shots. Pretty park (and town) Hignly recommend. Getting used to my R8 Picture of the picture...
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    Bubbles anyone?

    Mt Dora Florada. I found out, its hard to capture/focus on bubbles I drove my auto focus nuts trying to capture these Canon R8, with the Canon 28-70 f2.8 stm lens A progression of focus points
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    LDN1399 Thor's Lightning dark nebula

    After near 20 hours I just couldnt pull out the lighting as I hoped. Limits of a color camera I guess along with my feeble processing skills. Super dark nebula taken from my driveway, Anderson SC. WO GT 71, ASI2600mc pro, Skywatcher eq6r, Antila ALP-T 5nm filter. (233) 5 min light frames...
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    Yep, another Supermoon photo

    Nothing special, but this one taken with my Canon R8 and my 100-400 lens set at 400mm. 1/250 sec at 100 ISO & f11 my next adventure is mounting my R8 to my Cat 8 with no focal reducer making it around f2200
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    Lobster Nebula w/friends

    taken 10/23/2025 6 1/2 hours of lights using my William Optic GT71 which is 332mm FL, ASI2600mc, Antilla ALP-T 5nm filter Shown is Nebulae NGC7538, NGC7635 and Sh2-157\ Question: do you prefer the one with LOTs of stars #1 Or fewer stars #2? Ed Litoborski Interstellar Astrophotography...
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    Turning your cell phone camera upside-down?

    So I've see several videos where folks are recommending turning your cellphone upside down and low to the ground to give your image a whole different look. My question is do you get the same result when using a dslr camera? im trying to figure out what turning it upside down does?
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    My nocternal imaging view

    Trying out my new Iaowa f2 x 17mm lens mounted to my R8, the shot below is a 3 sec exposure at iso 800 I was trying for a Milkyway while imaging with my telescope last night. I did pick up the tale of the milkyway as shown below but the brighter core was way below the trees. I guess I have...
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    NGC7538 & NGC7635

    2 for the price of one Taken last night with right at 6 1/2 hours of 5 min subs from my home in SC Used my SXV 102, 2600 mc with the Antila 5nm filter. Taking the same image tonight but with a wider field of view scope (my Williom Optics 525mm Capturing the lobster claw along with these 2. I...
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    NGC7129 The Cosmic Rosebud

    I struggled to capture and process this one. I have 11 1/2 hours in it and I throw in the towel. looking online, others I've seen I like have 3 times as much time and taken in darker skieswith bigger scopes. Oh well, on to something else. Filter used was the Antila ALP-T 5nm, asi2600 mc...
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    The other football

    Same weekend as my hike, this are all taken with the new C8 and the 100 x 400 stm lens My grandson is blue # 10 who plays of Brevard NC HS. They won with a scope was 3 to 1 and he scored all 3 goals. I did a batch editing on these as I was taking burst shots hoping to get the perfict...
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    Hiking in the Blue Ridge Mtns

    The good news, I am only 45 minutes from Ceasars Head st park in the Blue Ridge Mtns, the bad news I don't take advantage of it as I should. I hope that changes. Still getting used to my new Canon R8 and the 27x70 2.8f stm zoom lens. I also picked up a 100x400 stm lens for it. I hope to...
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    Refining Auroa processing

    As many of you have seen, I tend to over process or over saturate my images. The N Lights, to me is really easy to over process. So, I am really interested to see what you all think is the better image, #1 or #2 or nether? I really want to improve so feel free to give me your open and honost...
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    Sh2-140, The Hidden Nebula

    Taken over the last couple nights This nebula is along the northeast circumference of a very large molecular cloud called the Cepheus Bubble. This is a bubble of gas and dust that is around 500 light years across and approximately 2700 light years away. From our vantage point on earth, this...
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