Hi all,
Well, here it is. My first image from my partially-automated exposed backyard observatory.
This image comprises 20.73 hours of data captured over 23 nights in June, August and September. 10 hours of luminance, and, the rest in red, green and blue data.
It's been a long time coming. I travel 1.5 hours each way to work and back and by the time I get home, I'm so tired I can't even begin to think about processing images. I still have my 8-panel Rho Ophiuchus mosaic data staring at me waiting to be processed. It's going to take me a year to get through it all.
Very happy to see dust surrounding the main dark nebulae. I haven't seen it before (or, if I have, I didn't pay much attention to it). I am hoping that's a result of the ten hours of luminance that has given it some prominence.
I hope you like it.
Image is
here.
If you click on the image, it'll load a 50% resolution file.
Comments, critique, etc., most welcome.
Thank you for looking!
H