bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

A third clear sky night; wow! Shot six 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 ~50 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 actually relatively pleased with the Eagle Nebula. It was 15° off the horizon, right in the forest fire smoke, but came out fair decent.

Enjoy!

bwa

Blue Snowball Nebula (NGC7662)(DL152,A7R V,40x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR_2x Actual Size


Cat's Eye Planetary Nebula (NGC6543)(DL152,A7R V,57x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR


Eagle Nebula (M16)(DL152,A7R V,41x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR

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Diffuse Nebula (IC1035)(DL152,A7R V,69x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR w/ a few dark lanes

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Planetary Nebula & GM Dra (IC1256)(DL152,A7R V,67x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE_HDR at the arrow

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Spindle Galaxy (M102)(DL152,A7R V,61x30sec,ISO800)_LR_PI_MStretch_ABE

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

Very cool!!

Ballard Loc: Grass Valley, California

Great set of shots. You can see the pillars of creation in the eagle nebula.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Another great set of images, Brian.
Love the Blue Snowball.