bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

A second clear sky night; wow! Shot five targets.

All were shot with a Sony A7R V camera and David Levy 152 telescope (730mm, f/4.8), on an iOptron CEM26 mount.

All subs were 30 seconds @ ISO800 with ~60 subs per target captured.

I did my normal processing on all the resulting stacks with HDR processing added in. Normal processing is:
- preprocessing in Lightroom
- align, stack, masked stretch and automatic background extraction in PixInsight
- noise reduction in Topaz Photo AI
- star reduction/color in Photoshop's Astro-Panel extension
- final tweaks to taste in Lightroom
- used Aurora HDR for the high dynamic range processing

I am particularly happy with the Dumbbell Nebula (M27). As for the Little Dumbbell Nebula, it is kinda small for my configuration but thrown in anyway.

Enjoy!

bwa

Hercules Cluster (M13)(DL152,A7R V,42x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR

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Pegasus Cluster (M15)(DL152,A7R V,60x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR

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Dumbbell Nebula (M27)(DL152,A7R V,56x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR

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Gamma Cassiopeiae Nebula (IC59&IC63)(DL152,A7R V,56x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR

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Little Dumbbell Nebula (M76)(DL152,A7R V,61x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_2xSize

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alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ

Wow, you got great star color. My skies just south of Phoenix won't support most deep space photography.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

The star color was greatly assisted by the Astro-Panel (6.0.2 Pro) extension to Photoshop.

bwa

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Excellent set of images. M13 is one of my favorites to few. You shot of M13 also caught IC 4617 at magnitude 15.2 in the upper right of the image (Note: IC 4617 is ~ 1/2 billion light years away so we are seeing its light from around the time the Cambrian explosion when multicellular life was really starting to get going.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Most excellent Brian!
Make stars while the stars shine!