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NGC 7000 North America Nebula #4, Molly Wakeling
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NGC 7000 North America Nebula #4

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NGC 7000 North America Nebula #4, Molly Wakeling
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NGC 7000 North America Nebula #4

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Since the Nikon 50-200mm lens I have is an automatic-aperture lens, in order to open the aperture in this manual setup, I used two pieces of toothpick 🤣Fully open, it has too much lens distortion, so I took out one of the toothpicks. It's roughly something like f/6 or something like that, so it's not as bright as it could be for the 3-minute exposure time. But using the astro camera instead of my DSLR allowed me to capture a lot more red in the image since it doesn't have the spectrum filter that DSLRs have to make daylight images approximate human vision (that is, pretty low sensitivity to red). I did use a light pollution filter though! (And I'm saving up for a better lens!)

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NGC 7000 North America Nebula #4, Molly Wakeling

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