Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  1 Gem  ·  10 Gem  ·  11 Gem  ·  12 Gem  ·  13 Gem)  ·  13 mu. Gem  ·  2 Gem  ·  3 Gem  ·  4 Gem  ·  5 Gem  ·  6 BU Gem  ·  68 Ori  ·  7 Gem)  ·  7 eta Gem  ·  71 Ori  ·  8 Gem  ·  9 Gem  ·  B227  ·  Calx (μ Gem  ·  Gem A  ·  Gemini  ·  HD251311  ·  HD251847  ·  HD252197  ·  HD252924  ·  HD253516  ·  HD253870  ·  HD254042  ·  HD254209  ·  HD254755  ·  And 101 more.
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Widefield Around Propus, Ethan Atkinson
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Widefield Around Propus

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Widefield Around Propus

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This is a widefield shot of the area around Propus in Gemini. I had been doing some visual observing and was struck by the beautiful orange color of the star and its nearby neighbor Tejat. Once I realized that there were actually nebulae in the area, I pulled the trigger and got around 4 hours of data on it.

I wanted to try and capture rich color that I saw visually in the stars and in the end feel like this was my best attempt at getting the star colors correct. I also went head and added some string to the end of the lens because something about those diffraction spikes just hits different.

Data was drizzled 2x to help make up for the under sampling. I realy need to figure out how I can automate my dithering, because I ended up having to go and manually dither it every 10-20 frames to avoid some walking noise.

Overall I'm happy with how the image turned out. Still having issues with back focus on the lens, and I've ordered some adapters that I'm hoping can help me fix it, so here's to that and hopefully less rain.

Hope y'all enjoy and clear skies!

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Widefield Around Propus, Ethan Atkinson