[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

After 50+ years of observing, I have only recently become interested in Astrophotography.

I know next-to-nothing about stacking, stitching, blanks etc. Nevertheless, I am just amazed at what a mirror-less camera can take for a few seconds at prime focus and how well the results are. We are truly living in the future, or so it seems to a retiree like me.

I wanted to try for the Comet last night, but the clouds just would not give me the break I wanted. So I took these instead.

Taken with an 80mm F6 triplet and a contrast booster filter. There was no field flattener and there has been no further processing of the image beyond shedding resolution to meet the 500k per picture requirement.

Images: NGC 3766 in Centaurus, Omega Centauri and M57 (Ring Nebula).