M16 Eagle Nebula TV-85 Image
This is a more complete view than my last of the Eagle Nebula, which includes the famous "Pillars of Creation" at the center. It's a nice backyard target but it's very low in my sky. I acquired a new mount this year which also lets me use my older, heavier telescopes like my Televue TV-85 -- actually considered a "portable" refractor but still too heavy for my mounts which I've used with ultralight gear.
In July I set up to image the nebula nearly every evening without rain but I still needed to discard more than half my data due to clouds or Canadian wildfire smoke, frequently present in the New York area in recent months. The image above integrates 108 minutes of capture from July 10 - 21st. More data would be great to fill out more of the faint regions, but this will have to wait for next year as the nebulae is now lost in my trees by the time it is dark.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 telescope/Borg 1.08 flattener/RST-135E mount/ZWO ASI 533MC Pro camera/IDAS LPS V-4 filter. 108 minutes of unguided 4 to 15-second exposures collected in SharpCap livestacks and processed in PixInsight, GraXpert, Starnetv2, and ACDC GemStone. From my Bortle 7 yard 10 miles north of NYC.
M16 Eagle Nebula TV-85 Image
This is a more complete view than my last of the Eagle Nebula, which includes the famous "Pillars of Creation" at the center. It's a nice backyard target but it's very low in my sky. I acquired a new mount this year which also lets me use my older, heavier telescopes like my Televue TV-85 -- actually considered a "portable" refractor but still too heavy for my mounts which I've used with ultralight gear.
In July I set up to image the nebula nearly every evening without rain but I still needed to discard more than half my data due to clouds or Canadian wildfire smoke, frequently present in the New York area in recent months. The image above integrates 108 minutes of capture from July 10 - 21st. More data would be great to fill out more of the faint regions, but this will have to wait for next year as the nebulae is now lost in my trees by the time it is dark.
Tech Stuff: TV-85 telescope/Borg 1.08 flattener/RST-135E mount/ZWO ASI 533MC Pro camera/IDAS LPS V-4 filter. 108 minutes of unguided 4 to 15-second exposures collected in SharpCap livestacks and processed in PixInsight, GraXpert, Starnetv2, and ACDC GemStone. From my Bortle 7 yard 10 miles north of NYC.