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[deleted] t1_iti74fh wrote
mmomtchev t1_itj9tcj wrote
No moisture on the telescope lens though?
It is amazing, I usually travel every year in a campervan during the summer months in the French Alps with my 10 inch Orion Skyquest and even in Bortle 2 zones, I am never able to see anything but the faint blob in the middle.
avittamboy t1_itpqnqg wrote
How much more difficult would this photo have been to take if you tried from a city or even a small town?
IrrelevantAstronomer OP t1_itptv8o wrote
Significantly more difficult, unfortunately. You'd probably need to get 10+ hours of data to get something remotely similar.
IrrelevantAstronomer OP t1_ithq4n5 wrote
Telescope: Apertura 72mm F/6 Doublet Refractor
Camera: ZWO ASI 183MC Pro
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
Imaging: Each panel was comprised of 24 five minute exposures, captured at a gain of 120.
Processing: Captured with NINA, processed in PixInsight with a final touchup in Photoshop.
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Story: If you live in Central Florida, you may have heard of a park known as "Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park" about 2 hours south of Orlando. It's a Bortle 3 zone that I setup at last night. I spent about 6 hours last night working on this image. This is a two panel mosaic shot entirely with a color camera - no filters, just my camera and telescope. Also got terrible ant bites, but that's the cost of astrophotography in a water-logged Florida.