Ad Astra Observatory

I’ve been having trouble with my setting circles lately. But once I got them dialed in, this object was pretty easy to find and photograph. For some reason, the image appears slightly soft in focus (despite the diffraction spikes around the stars); I think that it might have been because of temperature shift. Also, I think that I used too many of the original frames; some of them were pretty awful because this is one of the “behind the tree” objects, and Registax is only so-so at catching (which is to say, discarding) those kind of subframes…

I’ll probably rework this photo once the moon starts brightening this week.
This object’s pretty big — as big as M51 or M13.