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Heart Nebula (IC 1805), Colin McGill
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Heart Nebula (IC 1805)

Heart Nebula (IC 1805), Colin McGill
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Heart Nebula (IC 1805)

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A different configuration from my normal images - wide field from my very light polluted back garden near London.

Its taken a while, but finally starting to produce some better images. Lots of experimentation here - I wrote a couple of X2 drivers to control the equipment (the HEQ5 and the Lakeside Focuser), worked with ZWO to get the camera drivers sufficiently robust, tried several single board computers before settling on the Odroid XU4, then learning how to write a script for TSX using python.

Initially I got very little for this object until I remembered to use a light pollution filter when suddenly I started to see the nebula.

So, still learning how to use the set up, but starting to get images of sufficient quality to share.

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Heart Nebula (IC 1805), Colin McGill