Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  Eskimo nebula  ·  NGC 2392  ·  PGC 1637323  ·  PK197+17.1
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NGC2392 Eskimo Nebula, lowenthalm
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NGC2392 Eskimo Nebula

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NGC2392 Eskimo Nebula

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Had two nights in a row of fabulous seeing early last week, and put in two all nighters snapping pics. We had a lot of snow still on the ground, so I used an IDAS light pollution filter to combat all the extra reflected street light being scattered into the sky.

I've been meaning to get the Eskimo nebula for a while, but have had bad luck trying to get images under a great sky. This nebula is pretty fascinating and so bright that you can get a lot of detail without long exposures.

The first night I only got 100 seconds of live stacking in SharpCap before clouds rolled in for 2 hours. Then the nebula was behind my house, and I though that would be it. Then, the second night turned out great too and I got a chance to take three more 131s live stacks of 1 second frames to get 393s of data to add to the previous night 100s of data for a grand total of 393s. Confusing, yeah.

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NGC2392 Eskimo Nebula, lowenthalm

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Astrophotography with Dobson