[etill (Elliot)]

There is a super long story behind this one. But the short one is I drove up to a farm about 20k from a town called Cohuna in Victoria where its really dark, and last night was really, really cold, to take a photo of 2021pfs which I can't see from my backyard in Melbourne.

Everything that could go wrong did. I thought dew was a problem, until I got ice forming on the mount, and everything else around me. In the end I finally got setup by a bit past midnnight, with about 30 mins left before NGC5427 was going to drop too low. On top of that I was wearing fluro ski gear in the middle of a paddock miles from anywhere (part of the long story).

8 hours of driving there and back, hours or things going wrong in the cold and dark to get set up, 6 300 sec subs, and only one usable due to fog rolling in. Totally worth it though, I got to photograph a star exploding.

Attached is the image I got of 2021pfs in NGC5427, processed as best I could in pix insight from a single 300 sec sub.