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Old 11-06-2021, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
The Optolong enhance L filter - is that a narrowband filter?
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The OP said it's an L-Pro, Greg, which is more of a broadband LP filter & seems to have pretty good transmission in the blue so in theory it should allow it to be captured.

I think the main issue Trevor is that it's super faint AND extremely large.
My image here: Blue Horsehead was taken with a Samyang 135mm lens at f2.8 under really dark skies. I did crop it a little but the image is still 9 degrees across - getting background sky around the blue horse-head for contrast with even a small, fast f-ratio telescope (without resorting to mosaics) would likely take a camera with a pretty large sensor.

Hope that gives some context. It's definitely a challenging object.
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