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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, Gary Crawford
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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex

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I managed to image this on a trip to the Atacama Desert in May with Yuri Beletsky and Kerry-Ann Lecky Hepburn. I'm new to the southern skies so this was a treat to image. I was primarily working on nightscape imaging but brought my Spacecat with me. I rented a mount that wouldn't communicate with my ASIair Pro so I manually composed this shot and it was unguided. So not knowing the mount I took 1 minute subs. I also didn't want to deal with a meridian flip so I started shooting after it passed the Meridian. It's completely processed in PixInsight.

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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, Gary Crawford