And to put it into a little broader perspective here’s a wider field view which starts to show the Heart Nebula.
Mount: AP900GTO3
Scope: Tak FSQ-106ED
CCD: Apogee Alta U16
Filters: Baader Ha, O[III], S[II]
MMOAG OAG w/ sbig st-i guider
Total Exposure 5 hours
Two of us spent Wednesday night at the Greene County Observing Site. It had been almost 6 months since we’d been there last due to this years cold and snowy winter. As always the light pollution continues to grow everywhere so I took panoramic shots of the site in daylight and at night to show the current lights in the SE and S primarily. Unfortunately, I didn’t take them from the same spot or at the same focal length so they aren’t 100% comparable but they give you an idea.
I thought it would be fun to take an older image, reprocess it, and crop into smaller sections that would put a new spin on a very commonly imaged object. Hope you like them. I won’t reveal what the object is until later.
