Notices by Roger Sliva (rsliva@astrodon.social)

This is only part of NGC 1499 as the whole nebula won't fit in the field of view. Also called the California Nebula, I guess this would be Santa Barbara.
This is the longest shot taken so far with the 16" reflector, 676x15s exposures. The nebula is at a good location in the sky for my latitude resulting in very little field rotation.
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After discovering that some recent guiding issues were caused by a loose guide scope lens, I ran a couple of tests last night on each side of the meridian to see if guiding improved. Yep, that was the fix. Here’s one of the test shots, 78 minutes on the Fish Head Nebula (IC 1795).

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I hurt my back and have been limited on shooting, keeping things simple and sticking to the 5 inch refractor. Here’s 3.75 hours on Messier 33 and am thankful for it.
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Messier 31, the Andromeda Galaxy, almost fits in the field of view of my 5 inch refractor. This is a 2.5 hour integration (162 x 60s) taken early Saturday morning. The satellite #galaxies Messier 32 and Messier 110 are left and right.
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Last photo for probably a while since we are heading back into a wet cycle in southern Kentucky.
This is the reflection (blue) nebula NGC 6914 in Cygnus taken last night with a 5 in. refractor. The image is scaled way up.
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