I always like to say "with patience and persistence" one will succeed in doing astrophotography. Living in bortle 3 skies for the last three years has been a gift and a curse. It really allowed me to hone my processing skills and with good data. Before I moved, I always felt that my bortle 7 skies were really holding me back. It wasnt until I moved to bortle 3 that I was confident in my post processing abilities.
Moving back to the bortle 7 skies of Cincinnati has brought back old challenges. I became spoiled. So, I've been rather nervous to try and shoot an LRGB target from under such skies again. I suppose I chose a rather easy target to conquer under bortle 7 skies but I had to warm up before I start shooting galaxies again.
I am rather happy with these results. I gathered a total of 34 hours but stacked only the best 60% to rid myself of of images with clouds, haze, branches etc. This is a total of 21 hours. I was pleasantly surprised buy the amount of fainter dust I was able to pick up. I would be very curious to see if I could pick up the dust in the surrounding area with a full frame camera. I am also very fond of this doublet I shot this with. It has finally allowed me to shoot this target as a whole for the first time!
Anyway, I want to show that with enough exposure time and post processing practice, one can take a passable image under suburban skies.
Cheers
Equipment:
Ioptron CEM60
asi183mm
Astrodon LRGB
72ED Doublet
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