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Old 29-02-2020, 09:02 PM
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Sh2-308 (near EZ CMa) first try

Thursday night I tried to capture this very faint nebula near the star Omicron CMa (the orange star in the middle) and the fainter bluish Wolf-Rayet EZ CMa. The very faint blue nebula is barely visible as a crescent to left bottom from the orange star.
I exposed 15x3 minutes using the Canon 6D on the ED110 prime focus. I cropped the result to about APS-C size.


Postprocessing with Photoshop was not easy due to the gradients, it was a bit misty and light polluted, not the best combination, in Wyee (near Newcastle), so not the best sky.


I found this site how to handle these gradients.


And the setup during the imaging using a bag with stones as makeshift counterweight.
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