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Cone Nebula in Monoceros

4h+ intergration time, 1mn subs. 1600iso

Sony a7iii, Canon 70-200 f/4 lens, StarAdventurer tracker

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M42, the Great Orion Nebula. Captured from south of France.

shorts exposures on SW classic 200P (1200mm) /// 784x0.25′ - no filter

Sony a7iii, no EQmount - manual “tracking”

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IC434 in Orion

The Horsehead Nebula and The Flame Nebula

5h+ integration time - sub 2″30

Sony a7III - L-eXtreme filter - WO Zenithstar 61II refractor - Bresser EXOS 2 mount

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M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

2h+ integration time, 30s sub

Sony a7iii (stock) SW StarAdventurer WO ZenithStar 60 ii Bortle 4 class sky site South of France

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Moon, 10/11/21

WO ZenithStar II Barlow ×3 1080mm focal length Camera T7C StarAdventurer tracker 2500 images stacked (best 50%)

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Andromeda Galaxy (M31) 7+ hours of exposure, 30s and 60s subs Sony a7iii SW StarAdventurer WO ZenithStar 60 ii Bortle 4 class sky site South of France

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Jupiter, 

taken from my backyard, south of France

Newton Dobson 200/1200, no tracking mount, Datyson T7C, Televue 3x Barlow

Seeing 4/5

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Saturn from 15.08.21, south of France.

Newton 200/1200 (no mount), Barlow Televue x3 and Datyson T7C camera.

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M51 galaxy taken with a newton dobsinan telescope (SW 200/1200). Manual “tracking” this time ! Short exposures only... lot of disk space needed. About 1200 frames 0,8s each. This was shot south of France from a bortle class 5 sky on the 06/04/21

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Leo Triplet taken on April 1st 2021 from south of France (bortle 5 site)

only 2h21 of data, taken through a WilliamOptics 61 refractor and a Sony a7III. no filter nedded ! still having some issues with light pollution though... maybe more data coming in the next days.

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Full “mineral” Moon, taken from South of France, 29.03.21

WO 61/360 refractor, ZWO 120MM mini camera, StarAdventurer Tracker

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Horsehead Nebula (IC434) in Orion, reprocessed.

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M45, aka the Pleiades, the seven sisters

6h+ integration (classic RGB, bortle 5 site) on this beautiful area of the sky.

Taken through the WilliamOptics ZenithStar 61ii refractor, Sony a7iii, with StarAdventurer EQ mount.

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Heart Nebula

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Heart Nebula

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M42, as known as the Great Orion Nebula.

I took this photo over two nights (4h+ total exposure) and processed it as HOORGB composite - 1mn sub-exposures for HOO and 30s for RGB. Took from a class 5 bortle site.

Gear used : Sony a7iii (3200iso) camera - William Optics Zenithstar 61ii (360mm) refractor - SkyWatcher Star Adventurer equatorial mount - Optolong L-eXtreme light pollution narrowband filter.

Softwares used : Siril, Photoshop.