Ad Astra Observatory

The birth of a nemesis. NGC7000 is so big and relatively dim that it’s a challenge to pick up the whole nebula in one shot. This is a full 35mm frame, carefully aimed and rotated so that the nebula would be framed properly. After all of that, this late in the season, the object nears zenith early in the evening, and so all I got was a single 15min frame before the mount went berserk.

I didn’t get back to NGC 7000 for five years.