Ad Astra Observatory

I think I’ve finally gotten a decent shot of this object. What with one thing and another, I always seem to miss being able to give this guy the full treatment.

I was doing one last pass through the winter constellations, before they started getting too far West, and the rig was finally ready to do 20min subframes.

Without further ado,

The nebula looked so nice, I decided to do a full-zoom crop, too:

You’ll note, if you’ve been paying attention, that these images have dust bunnies. I tried re-processing them with flats, and couldn’t get it to work. Sometimes my processing mojo drives me a little nuts.

shrug.