Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  Iris Nebula  ·  NGC 7023
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IRIS NEBULA, Jeff Marston
IRIS NEBULA
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IRIS NEBULA

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IRIS NEBULA

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This isn’t my first try at the Iris Nebula. It seems like i improve by little tiny bits, but that’s okay. 

I was at my favorite dark site and went for the Iris Nebula, because a few other targets I wanted to try were almost at the meridian and my scope was hitting my tripod. I spent for hours getting data but phd2 kept losing stars. There were either high clouds messing with my tracking or I hadn’t polar aligned well enough and I had to drop about an hour of data. Seeing was good and there was no wind, but it was a bit on the cold side. By the time my imaging buddies and I packed up our gear just past midnight there was frost on everything. I really wanted that extra hour of data, but there are so many things that can go wrong with imaging, especially if you have to set up and tear down each time.

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IRIS NEBULA, Jeff Marston