Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1590  ·  NGC 281  ·  Sh2-184
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NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia
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NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula

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NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia
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NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula

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Dear Astrofriends,

As some of you may know, I'm based in the Paris suburbs now. The place is called Maisons-Laffitte.

I'd arrived in July and after all the moved was done and our marks were achieved, I finally unpacked one of the telescopes.

As the sky is horrifying awful, I decided to only setup my refractor and give it a try with it first. I'd measure the sky brightness several times and the value was never above 16.3 sqm !!!!

Can you even think in imaging under a sky like that ???

So as I'm a bit stubborn and not prepared to put my astrophotography aside for some years, I gave it a go...

NGC 281, the Pacman nebula was simply chosen because that was my nickname during my adolescence, as I used to eat too much, I thought that it'd be a nice representation of my roots.

As I thought that RGB wasn't worth to try, NB was the remaining option.

So here is my first image taken from the Northern Hemisphere, a place that I'm starting to discover.

Hopefully more images will follow...

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NGC 281 - Pacman Nebula, Fabian Rodriguez Frustaglia

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