Ad Astra Observatory

This was the first image I shot while at The Golden State Star Party (GSSP) 2010.

This is 40m total exposure, two 20m subframes, shot with Pumpkin and the 350D with no light pollution filters. In short, the sky was dark. Without the IDAS LPS, I’m restricted to around 3m subframes at home. I shot 20m subframes at GSSP because I already had things set up for that, from the Ha work I do at home.