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Old 24-07-2017, 12:15 PM
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Sharpless 54 / LBN72 and NGC6604

I wanted something a little different this time rather than shooting the same old stuff. Something I haven't taken before but something nice. Chewing over the milky way rising in the east, this Serpens star cloud looked like it might be possible, but having never imaged it before I didn't know what to expect. The single sub looked meh but maybe with 900 of them... To my surprise the field is quite nice. Not sure why it doesn't get imaged more often? Looks as good as Eta Carina and friends to me.

So here it is, Sharpless 54 / LBN72 and little cluster NGC6604.
GSO 10" F4 Newtonian, Full spectrum Canon 1100D, 965 x 30 seconds or about 8 hours unguided (I'm having guiding problems) Baader Semi-apo filter, HEQ5 Pro.

Full wart size at Astrobin. ---> http://astrob.in/304479/0/
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