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Something smaller... Stephan's Quintet
Oct 6, 2019 12:28:03   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Old Mr. Moon is, again, becoming obnoxious, so I find myself looking Northward and vertical for my targets. It's a big sky, so as long as I can avoid the overhead wires, and airplanes, I can usually find something of interest.

So looking around for objects to image in Stellarium, I saw The Deer Lick Group. Looking closer took me to a group of NGC objects (NGC 7317 - NGC 7320) called Stephan's Quintet in the Pegasus area.
Intrigued, I decided to try gathering it.
I got locked in on it, but made two restarts due to Aircraft burns, or overhead wires. Finally, I just let'R run.
I was doing my in-the-house remote operation anyway (Thanks to Ronnie). So away she goes, gathering 2 minute (120s) images, and stacking them up. I wanted to do a long series anyway on this tiny, distant grouping.
The wife decided to watch "Blacklist", so I wondered off to my recliner. Then we watched another taped show after that. ~ 2 hours later I came back to nearly 2 hours (7200 seconds) of stacked images.
I was able to squeeze in an even 7200 seconds before the looming meridian was to cut me off.

After that, I found the Crescent Nebula, (Ear Nebula) and gathered another 30 minutes (1800 seconds) of 2 minute images of that.

Here's the grab:

Stephans Quintet 5 120s 600s A stack of 5 images.
Stephans Quintet 5 120s 600s A stack of 5 images....
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Stephans Quintet 60 120s 7200s A stack of 60 images. Unprocessed JPG
Stephans Quintet 60 120s 7200s A stack of 60 image...
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Stephans-Quintet-60-120s-7200s-w For some reason I couldn't "Store Original" of this to make it downloadable.
Stephans-Quintet-60-120s-7200s-w For some reason I...

Cresent Nebula 15 120s 1800s The original JPG
Cresent Nebula 15 120s 1800s The original JPG...
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Cresent Nebula 15 120s 1800s-w After Post Processing in my minimalist way.
Cresent Nebula 15 120s 1800s-w After Post Processi...
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Oct 6, 2019 12:51:50   #
SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA
 
Second try at the cropped version.
Just cropped, no pp.

Maybe one of you guys with better gear can try?

Stephans-Quintet-60-120s-7200s-w2 Guess the image is just too much for UGH.
Stephans-Quintet-60-120s-7200s-w2 Guess the image ...

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