Ad Astra Observatory

This is my deepest image yet of NGC7000, 5 full hours (15x20m). This is with my normal Levels-and-Curves treatment in Photoshop, but it’s the full FOV. This was first light for my new Astro-Tech field flattener. It did … OK. But the field isn’t flat. I will try putting in some spacers to see if I can tighten up the stars in the corners of the image.

Normally I don’t post unedited images, but I was stunned at how nice the Red channel looked, even before I started tweaking it:

…and that’s why you go to a dark sky site, folks.