Ad Astra Observatory

The shutter was open for about 4 hours total last night. These have had darks and bias subtracted but no flats (my flat box is dead).

This is all through the Ha filter, of course.

Strangely enough, this object is bright enough in OIII (or Hb?) that there was actually some data in the blue channel (nothing worth adding to the stack, just interesting).

Here is The Veil Nebula. This image shows about 5deg x 3deg.

There are several NGC “objects” in this frame, the two brightest being 6960 (on the right) and 6992 (on the left).

But between them is some crazy wispy detail that I have never had the FOV to capture before. Cool. Pumpkin pulls in a ton of sky. I sort of wish I could get a flat field without a focal reducer (I do *not* need 0.8x on this image), but oh well. This nebula is a lot dimmer than NGC7000, so I got a lot less detail even though it’s a fairly long integration. The things you find out. I’m working my way through the H-alpha regions in Cygnus.