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Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL, robonrome
Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL
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Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL

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Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL, robonrome
Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL
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Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL

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This will be the last of my series of images at full 780mm FL on my APM130 for a while... I'm going back to the riccardi 0.75x for a bit.

Really I'd like more data for this one, but as I'm only able to get a couple hours before sunrise at the moment it took 4 nights even for the modest amount here (one night largerly lost to cloud)... maybe later in the season if I come back to the straight Riccardi flat i cant build on it.

I tried a couple of new things here...because of the extreme brightness variation here I ran Zero gain to get the full well capacity while also running longer 8min subs.

Stacked in APP into Ha, OIII, and SII and recombined and processed in Startools.

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Tarantula Nebula in SHO at 780mm FL, robonrome

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