Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  77 Dra  ·  HD202505  ·  LBN 550  ·  LBN 552  ·  LDN 1228
LBN-522 and LDN-1228, Astro with Eric
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LBN-522 and LDN-1228

LBN-522 and LDN-1228, Astro with Eric
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LBN-522 and LDN-1228

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A project from this summer, spending a lot of time with "The King", the constellation Cepheus. I've primarily focused on dark nebulosity because of the challenges it can bring working with such opaque targets in an already dark sky. This is one of my first processed images of a target acquired using the ASI2600MM Pro APS-C CMOS camera and my newest OTA, William Optics FLT91 APO. I was primarily focused on using different gain settings to learn more about exposure length and gain settings. While these are both 120s and 180s images. with a target such as this, I will most likely return to it later and use unity gain @ 100 and longer exposures around 300 seconds and add more data, probably moving towards a solid 26 or even 36 hours.

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LBN-522 and LDN-1228, Astro with Eric