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Another Test shot with the A694 / AP130EDT combination – M33
Test Shot Horse Head AP130EDT & A694
Test Shot Galaxy NGC 7331 AP130EDT w/ Apogee A694
M52, NGC 7635 The Bubble Nebula, SH2-157 The Lobster Claw Nebula, & SH2-161
This area is rich in diversity offering the Open Cluster M52, Emission Nebula SH2-157 aka The Lobster Claw Nebula as well as SH2-161. Also included is the more famous Bubble Nebula NGC 7635. Imaged from my backyard outside Pittsburgh, PA.…
Wagman Star Party 9/14/2013
It was a beautiful night, chilly but not too cold, for a star party.
NGC 7331 – A694 Test Shots
Mediocre conditions at my dark site in terms of haze / fog early on turning to all fog later so only 2.5 hours of exposure on this one. Combined with the new light pollution from the gas companies this isn’t…
Light Pollution – The Side Effects of the Fracking Boom
On 8/29/2013 I visited my dark site, a 2 acre plot outside West Finley, PA near the PA / WV border. There is a huge increase in traffic, road construction, heavy equipment excavation, etc. occuring in the region due to…
A694 First Light
The A694 finally saw first light after an extended bought of bad weather and other personal issues. This is a single 20 minute frame without any bias, dark, or flat calibration taken through an AP130EDT f/8 reduced to f with…
Campmeeting Observatory – Starlapse
A series of short exposures combined in Deep Sky Stacker using a maximum pixel value to create an apparent long exposure without burning out foreground features. The green leaf pattern on the observatory is from the lights across the street…