Windy again last night but not enough to stop me from capturing the "Fox Fur Nebula" and the "Cone Nebula"! About 2 1/4 hours of 4-minute sub-exposures with a ZWO ASI585MC Pro camera on an AVX mount using a Daystar 80mm f/6 refractor.
My first effort at capturing (even if only a wide field view of it). With this new camera I hope to do a tighter view of it in the future. One "mistake" was though it took 4 minutes for each "sub" I forgot that exposures that long would "blow-out" the stars (making them BIG and white). As such they really distract from the nebulas themselves. I should have taken just a few "subs" at about 1 or 2 minutes each and used those as the "starmask" which would have controlled not only the size of the stars but also captured the colors of the stars better. Oh well... next time!
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