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Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster, Rick
Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster
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Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster

Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster, Rick
Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster
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Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster

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I was really suprised this image came out as well as it did, This was shot with a stink normal Tamron 75-300 f/4-5.6 II Lens. It was set to 75mm and f/4. I'm running out of things to shoot with only my Tripod as my EQ6 and EQM 35 are in Switzerland and I'm in Germany...with Border crossings during this Wuhan Virus lockdown a total unknown, I'm having to make do with what I have and all the spare time as well.... I honestly would have never thought this image would show so much color and structure.

I shot these all these images at 8 sec., the NPF Rule is about 4.6 sec. for this focal length but the star trailing wasn't too bad so I decided to sacrifice a bit of sharpness to capture a few more Photons, and It worked out well.



250x8 sec. @ ISO 12800 w/Svbnoy CLS filter

245x8 sec. @ ISO 12800 w/Skytec Quadband filter

100x8 sec. @ ISO 12800 w/ Tiffen 2A filter

400x8 sec. @ ISO 12800 w/ no filter

995 Images total / Total Intergration : 2.2 hours

I was very pleased with the Svbony CLS filter, it was the first time I've used it and suprisingly it brought out about 30-40% of the nebulosity in the intergration and the Quadband the rest.

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Heart & Soul Nebula with Double Cluster, Rick