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[Benjamin]

Have done precious little this year but had a few days around Xmas to try to get the 250PDS working on the EQ6-R. Quite a lot of dropped subs as expected but managed to get 7 hours of data (30" subs in LRGB and managed some 180" subs in Ha). Light pollution (or perhaps the removal of the gradients associated with it) made this tough for me to process but nice to try out the new MGC tool in PixInsight. Astrobin: https://www.astrobin.com/q8keck/G/

[Cyberman]

I like it Ben. The blue nebula feels like you could fall through a blue intergalactic portal. I can also see a face just to the right of the central blue area. Very spooky or may be I should retake my Rorschach test. Cheers, Rob