The Owl and the Surfboard floating by, amidst the beautiful triangular stars (urmymuse)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: M 108 · M 97 · NGC 3556 · NGC 3587 · Owl Nebula · PK148+57.1

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The Owl and the Surfboard floating by, amidst the beautiful triangular stars

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The Owl and the Surfboard floating by, amidst the beautiful triangular stars

With apologies to Edward Lear who wrote the nonsense poem "The Owl and the Pussy-cat"

Set my new set up on this once the winter narrow band targets around Orion had disappeared behind the house

Obv my efforts were frustrated by clouds etc but managed to get just enough Ha Oiii and luminance to create this

If you zoom in on the Owl I think the results re better than what I got when I first started out with my un modified DSLR at 800mm focal length so I suppose that's progress

The horrible almost triangular stars which are very obvious in this pic which is devoid of large clouds of nebulosity etc are courtesy of either a) my total lack of knowledge re sorting backfocus and tilt b) optics misalignment in my new "I could have got three newts for the price of this" TS Optics Imaging Star or c) combination of a) and b)

TS Optic have asked me to send them some example images so I wait to hear back

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RA (center)	11h12m38s.35
RA (top/left)	11h16m53s.10
RA (top/right)	11h10m51s.46
RA (bottom/right)	11h08m25s.82
RA (bottom/left)	11h14m22s.15

Dec (center)	+55°15′48″.3
Dec (top/left)	+55°25′36″.9
Dec (top/right)	+55°50′08″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+55°05′27″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+54°41′22″.3

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