Antares & Rho Ophiuchi Region (David F)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Ophiuchus (Oph) · Contains: IC 4603 · IC 4604 · IC 4605 · M 4 · NGC 6121 · NGC 6144 · The star 22Sco · The star Al Niyat (σSco) · The star Antares (αSco) · The star οSco · The star ρOph · rho Oph Nebula

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Quite a challenging target from my latitude (47 degrees North) given

that it's not very high above the horizon. The two trees in front of my

apartment covering the region for 2 hours of the already short nights

did not really help. Therefore it took me 3 nights to capture 2 hours of

usable lights (the contribution from the 3rd night is almost negligible

due to a tracking problem), but i am still quite pleased with the result

considering the circumstances. The fast optics of the Epsilon certainly

helped to attain something presentable.

Takahashi Epsilon 130D on Vixen GPD2 with Canon EOS 6Da

65 x 2 min = 2.2h (@ISO800)

calibrated with flats & bias (no darks)

Processed with PixInsight, Photoshop CC 2019 & ColorEfex Pro 4

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