Fierce Dust Clouds in Milky Way (Min Xie)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Sagittarius (Sgr) · Contains: IC 4701 · IC 4715 · Lagoon Nebula · M 20 · M 24 · M 8 · NGC 6514 · NGC 6523 · NGC 6526 · Part of the constellation Ophiuchus (Oph) · Part of the constellation Sagittarius (Sgr) · Small Sgr Star Cloud · The star 44Oph · The star 45Oph · The star Alnasl (γ2Sgr) · The star Kaus Borealis (λSgr) · The star Media (δSgr) · The star Sabik (ηOph) · The star θOph · The star μSgr · The star ξOph · The star ξSer · Trifid Nebula

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Fierce Dust Clouds in Milky Way

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... Back to how it all started ...

It was a nice trip to West Texas over the new moon weekend. I brought along the ultra-widefield setup that has never been put into action. I Keep dreaming about maybe one day I can put all these into a backpack and go to the Southern part of the globe.

- AZ-GTi (controlled by SGP, a portable GOTO!)

- Sigma ART 50mm/f1.4

- AstroMechanics EF Focus Control Module (54mm)

- QHY168c

Pretty sure I made the mistake setting the gain way too low. Too few chances to visit the dark-site and have no idea what's the proper settings for the OSC. The plan was to shoot a 2-panel mosaic covering the Rho Ophiuchi. But failed to bring out the colors (definitely will try again!).

Not much processing done. Only Photoshop was used (except for the non-linear conversion - it was done in PixInsight). No flats, no darks, no biases were used to calibrate the raw frames.

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