Finally a clear night since the 18th October! It was a bit misty but I can´t complain, I could at least see stars instead of clouds. But the fog has been a very big problem this year.
Because the Moon was up, I thought first to try to image comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) just not to waist the clear night, but unfortunately it was behind the trees. So I decided last minute to re-shoot the Monkey Head Nebula because it is so bright and because the previous one was not good at all.
To save electricity the majority of my neighbors switched off the lamps in their gardens and that helped a lot to avoid gradients, no dust dots either were present, so no flats were needed this time either.
I could collect 102 images before the nebula disappeared behind the trees and 94 where good enough to stack.
I processed many variants of the nebula before I decided to upload this one, I hade difficult to be satisfied with the blue colors
Any way, there will be surely many more variants uploaded I think
Cs!
Ps: The 30th we hade a clear night too, but the moon was very near the Monkey Head nebula and friends so I opted to shoot the Soul nebula, very windy night tough, so only 76 images were collected before the nebula went to rest behind the trees, I'll try to collect some more in sprin.).
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