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The Swan Nebula, Trevor Jones
The Swan Nebula
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The Swan Nebula captured from the Texas Star Party 2023 back in May.

It's hard to believe this is only 1.5 hours worth of data, but that's the difference dark skies make!

I could put 20 hours on this from home and it still wouldn't look this good (shooting broadband, anyway). No filters are needed from this location. 

This is one of those targets that took me several tries to 'get right' in my eyes. It turns out, I just needed Bortle 1 skies!

See my progression on the Omega/Swan Nebula over the years.

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The Swan Nebula, Trevor Jones