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Wow. Loving the images and the stories behind them. I’ve only been doing proper astrophotography for about 6 months and during the most consistently warm summer I can recall as well. So having to constantly battle massive amounts of thermal noise while learning to get the best from my system at the same time has been a tough learning curve. I’ll admit many of the images I’ve taken, even at the 4-6 hour mark have left me wondering whether I should just risk divorce and go for a cooled mono camera haha. But after belt modding my mount and adding temperature compensating auto focus even with warm nights dithering and good focus have drastically improved my images.
This brings me to my favourite image, which happens to be my most recent. NGC 6188 the Fighting Dragons of Ara. No sleep all night for 3.5 hours of Ha data as I also images the Tarantula. It was about lunchtime the next day when PixInsight finished the Bayer drizzle integration and when I extracted the red channel and auto stretched oh my goodness! Finally after 6 months I had something that looked great straight from the camera.
Now I need to learn how to process better.
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