LBN 777 Vulture's Head/Baby Eagle Nebula (Reg Pratt)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Taurus (Tau) · Contains: B207 · LBN 775 · LBN 777 · LDN 1489 · LDN 1491

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LBN 777 Vulture's Head/Baby Eagle Nebula

LBN 777 Vulture's Head/Baby Eagle Nebula. I would have liked to get more Luminance on this but my window for this cycle was closing fast and I just couldn't. Comparing to the other examples I've seen, I think this is a quality image. No worse feeling than posting an image just to realize you could have done so much better.

My verdict in the Orion 250mm is in. It's a quality OTA. Tube is rigid, mirrors and mirror holders are solid. No sag in the tube. Mirrors are easy to collimate and hold collimation all night. In my climate autofocus is required about once every 45 minutes. The weak point of the scope is the focuser, which is to be expected. To be honesty the stock focuser actually isn't bad. It has been supporting my HEAVY image train with very minimal sag/tilt. If there was a solid option for focus motors I would consider saving some money and keeping it. But alas, there isn't so I broke down and ordered a Moonlite which will require me to drill new base holes into the tube.The craziest thing is how much light this thing gathers. When taking the secondary obstructions into account it has almost the same light gathering area as BOTH my 8" RC combined. So being able to reduce my set up to a single scope and still get the same amount of light has been a blessing in regards to setup time and effort. Provided I don't botch the focuser surgery, I'll definitely be ordering a second OTA for the really faint stuff I have planned.

Equipment:
Orion 10" F4 Astro graph [250/1000mm]
Baader MPCC Coma Corrector
ASI2600mm
TS-Optics LRGB
iOptron GEM45 mountBortle 4 [Mag 18] sky

L: 9.27
R: 1.0
G: 1.0
B: 1.0

TOTAL INTEGRATION: 12.27 hrs

ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Unique or Unusal Deep Sky Targets
SF Bay Area Imagers

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RA (center)	04h03m56s.17
RA (top/left)	04h03m37s.16
RA (top/right)	04h06m29s.90
RA (bottom/right)	04h04m15s.14
RA (bottom/left)	04h01m20s.91

Dec (center)	+26°30′18″.7
Dec (top/left)	+25°56′06″.7
Dec (top/right)	+26°28′15″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+27°04′52″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+26°32′21″.0

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