Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)
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What can you catch in 15 minutes?, Wim van Berlo
What can you catch in 15 minutes?
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What can you catch in 15 minutes?

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What can you catch in 15 minutes?, Wim van Berlo
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What can you catch in 15 minutes?

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This is just a little fun trial I did before my main object cleared the observatory wall. I pointed my telescope at LDN 1388, a dark nebula outside the galactic plane. One might wonder how one would go about detecting a dark nebula in this region at all, but apparently somebody did. Anyway, I spent 15 minutes in this area and collected 5 x 3 mins L subs. Calibrated, stacked and stretched in PixInsight (histogram transformation and curves transformation). Then plate solved and annotated. It seems you can catch quite a lot in just 15 minutes, including quasars and galaxies that are 1.5 billion light years distant. Just not dark nebulae outside the galactic plane.

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What can you catch in 15 minutes?, Wim van Berlo