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  • Oct 2, 2026, 6:07 AM
    retooted cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

    Probably an ill-advised project, but during the full Moon last weekend I pointed the big boy scope at tiny nebula NGC456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

    Ill-advised because with a bright Moon, even narrowband filters on the scope can’t stop the dark background of space from being greybrown instead of black.

    Still, I got just over 9 hours of useable data and with some slight over-processing it ends up looking pretty nice. I shall have to have a go at it during a set of actual dark nights :-)

    Note that all of this is over 200,000 light years away, so even the tiny bright nebulae are in fact enormous.

    Meade LX200, 0.63 focal reducer (for a focal length of 1470mm), Altair Astro 6nm Ha/OIII filter, ZWO ASI294MC Pro camera, AM5 mount. 112 x 300 second exposures processed in siril. Plus two seestar snaps from last month to put it in context.

    #astrophotography #space #Astrodon #astronomy

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