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August 2023 – Calhoun County Park
July 2023 – Calhoun County Park WV
April 2023 – NGC 3718 Galaxy Pairing
January 2023 – Sh2-261
Sh2-261, also called Lower’s Nebula in honor of Harold and Charles Lower who discovered it in 1939, is located between the Orion and Perseus arms of the Milkyway. It is dominated by H-alpha emission with little O[III] emission.
Calhoun County Park Oct (21-24) 2022
Starless Rosette Nebula – NGC 2237 / Caldwell 49
AP130GTX with QHY268M CMOS Camera on AP1200GTO Mount. Total Exposure time of ~17.5 hours comprised of 105 x 5 minute sub frames. Images captured from Clinton, TN. Located roughly 5,000 light years from earth, the Rosette Nebula is approximately 130…
Cherry Springs – July 2022
We had four relatively clear nights in a row. Some didn’t start great but all four produced usable imaging time even if the nights aren’t much more than 4 hours of astronomical darkness this time of year. A couple shots…
2021 December – IC 417 The Spider Nebula
Image Acquisition Location: Clinton, TN; Home Observatory Scope: AP130GTX Mount: AP1200GTO Camera: QHY268M Image Scale: ~0.92 arcsec/pixel Integration Time: ~15.8 Hours
November 2021 – IC410 The Tadpole Nebula
Image Acquisition Location: Clinton, TN; Home Observatory Scope: AP130GTX Mount: AP1200GTO Camera: QHY268M Image Scale: ~0.92 arcsec/pixel Integration Time: ~12.7 Hours