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Cocoon Nebula, Markice Stephenson
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Cocoon Nebula

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Cocoon Nebula

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Initially started this back in September at a dark site, where everything possible went wrong! First night it was a struggle to polar align and guide at the tilted elevation in the Malibu Mountains. I was only able to keep a few subs. During the second trip, I didn't keep any because of the ridiculous winds. It wasn't all bad, though, since I got to see the milky way for the first time!

Unfortunately, with my workload picking up, I couldn't return and had to try my best from the city. Not my longest project in terms of integration time, but certainly my largest sum of files! 10K

I had planned on mixing longer (60s, 0 gain) subs to see if it'd help at all with my target goal, but I ran into a stretch of nights with intense fog / fire smoke, so I opted to finish the rest of the project at the same 15seconds. Didn't get the result I wanted, but got the one I expected from working with my LP and shorter subs. I'll def be revisiting this one next year

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