June and July are not the best for astrophotography where we live, but if you find right person to cooperate with, you can forget about all difficulties, that night is only just above 2h long and is not even dark 😃🔭✨
So, we quickly came up with plan of action with mosaic of The Veil Nebula Complex,
@astromiasto 3 panels and me 2 panels, plus separate stars in RGB.
We were so lucky, beginning of June presented with beautiful weather, super clear sky’s and for the first two weeks we manage to catch so much date 🔭📷 Then we have to add more panels, as FOV was bit to small, and picture looks like something missing 🤔
We got to the end eventually, end up with 11 panels using L-eXtreme and 8 panels RGB stars, where in the season of short summer nights, was extra tricky and time consuming 😉
But hey ho, we done it 😍 Lots of hours under night skies, lots of driving out of the city, many times changing editing approach, but whole this give us amazing experience, working together we create beautiful image and memories 😃📷✨
TECHNICALS:
Mosaic:
11 panels with L-eXtreme (total 56h)
8 panels with UV/IR cut (total 4h)
Gear:
Marzena:
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 130d
Main camera: ZWO Asi294 mc Pro
Mount: ZWO AM5
Dawid:
Telescope: Skywatcher 130PDS
Main camera: ZWO ASI2600mc Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Pro
Post processing:
DSS, APP, Pixinsight, Photoshop
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