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Captured last night, this is M57, the ring nebula - as seen from bortle 8 suburbs.

I used my nexstar 8se at its native focal length 2032mm f/10 with my ASI533MC pro camera, skywatcher eq6-r pro mount, and no filters (straight broadband).

I attempted to use my planetary barlow lense to crank things down to f/20 4064mm, but that was pretty stupid from bortle 8 and didn't work at all, so I switched to f/10 and this was the result. This image is about 5.5 hours of 3-minute exposures, stacked in NINA and processed in PixInsight.

Thanks for checking out my first shot at lunar astrophotography! Only had about an hour of clear skies tonight before clouds rolled in so I decided to take a close up of the moon at f/10 2032mm, technically the native focal length for my C8.

This image represents about 4.5 minutes of 0.7ms frames in sharpcap, gain 140, moon at 29% tonight, captured with my nexstar 8SE at f/10 and my ASI533MC pro / skywatcher EQ6-R pro rig. Stacked in autostakkert 4, best 10% fine tuned with wavelet / sharpening in registax 6, then final processing in pixinsight. What really made this pop during processing was LocalHistogramEqualization (LHE) - really brought out the details in the craters compared to the original stacked image.

I'm sure I have a lot to learn with this being my first lunar photo but I enjoyed it! Galaxy season is rough from the suburbs - I have taken photos of jupiter, the moon, and even a globular cluster in the last couple of weeks I think out of desperation because galaxies are super tough targets overall from bortle 8/9.

CS!!!!!!

M104 Sombrero Galaxy ! The highlight of galaxy season for me being in insane light pollution.

• Celestron C8 at f/6.3 (celestron reducer/flattener)
• ZWO ASI533MC Pro
• No filters
• 76 x 180s (3.8 hours)
• Bortle 8 suburbs backyard

Really happy with how the dust lane color came out on this one! Captured this galaxy at 425mm (f/2.1) with the hyperstar last month but didn't feel like there was much detail - came back last night at 1280mm (f/6.2) and I feel like I actually caught that warm rust tone.

Stacked in SIRIL because I am too impatient for WBPP, Processed in PixInsight with DBE, SPCC, BlurXTerminator, GHS, and HDRMultiscaleTransform to pull out the dust lane detail.

M92 Globular Cluster | Celestron C8 at f/6.3 | ASI533MC Pro | Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro | 16 x 30s (8 minutes total integration)

8 minutes integration time - feels like a joke but I was curious :) After a year of deep integration I was curious to test what I could pull out of a quick session and honestly pretty happy with how the color and core detail came out. Individual stars resolving nicely through the halo with some great Population II color showing up in the outer members. Processed in PixInsight with DBE, SPCC, BlurXTerminator, and GHS stretch. It's honestly kind of nice to look at, I don't know why I have been hating on clusters this whole time.

Felt inspired by everybody's triplets and took another pass at them with the L-Pro, grabbed about 5 hours of filtered broadband data on them at 60 second exposures to add to my existing stack of unfiltered 60 second subs, bringing the total for this image to about 10 hours.

I sought out the dust surrounding the galaxies and I think the L-Pro did a fantastic job emphasizing the dust. I previously shot this target and overclipped resulting in dust / potential IFN being buried, so I over-brightened this one a bit to try to preserve as much of that as possible.

Captured with my ASI533MC pro camera, 8SE, skywatcher eq6-r pro, hyperstar C8 v3 and a combination of no filter + L-Pro at f/2.1 in bortle 8 suburban skies for all of this data.

My latest wide field attempt at m101 is a blend of 6 hours of 10 second and 30 second exposures with Hyperstar at f/2.1, combined with 5 hours of 5-minute exposures at f/6.3. Caught some very faint IFN, part of what makes this guy so tough to image. Nexstar 8se at varying focal lengths with and without Hyperstar, broadband / no filters, asi533mc pro, eq6-r pro