L-R:

William Owen - Medic/Techie.

'Bert' Dunlop - Rusher/Cameraman

Sgt. Maxwell Harrison - Tactics

John Manley - Sniper

Edward "Bones" Cunningham - Veteran Member.

Kinda' ODST inspired.

Auch, I haz Oreos, U jelly?

First discovered by Edmond Halley in 1714. It was 50 years later when Charles Messier added the cluster to his list of objects that he was not interested in, giving it the designation M13.

The cluster is 25,000 light years away from us and can be found in the Constellation Hercules. Giving it it's more prestigious title of 'The Great Cluster in Hercules'.

M13 is one of the brightest globular clusters visible to us, especially from the Northern hemisphere. Containing over 100,000 stars it is quite easy to detect with a modest pair of binoculars and a dark sky.

Leave a comment below if you find it with some binoculars.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

IC410 is an emission nebula in the constellation of Auriga. Often called the Tadpole Nebula in reference to the two tadpole shaped clumps in the upper left of the nebula.

NGC1893 is the open cluster of stars in the middle of IC410. It's these stars that are ionizing and shaping the surrounding nebula. The tadpoles themselves could be collapsing in to new stars.

The nebula is around 12 to 12,500 light years away and 100 light years across.

The open star cluster is believed to have been formed 2 to 4 million years ago.

Captured from my back garden in Rochdale, UK. Bortle 6.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8"S with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Backyard Universe primary mask and Backyard Universe secondary spider. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

120s exposures.

Best 80% of 40 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

The area south of Market street in San Francisco is undergoing a Renaissance of sorts. The older buildings remain, but they are rapidly being populated by techie software firms that remodel the innards but keep the outer look the same. You can tell by the newer windows that this is the case here. They almost look out of place next to the Gallo Salame ghost sign.

Louis Gabiati brought his salame making skills from Italy to SF in 1910. The salame is no longer made at this site, but it's still a West Coast thing. Grab a package on your next trip to the market. Your heart will thank you for it.

San Francisco CA

Better known as the Jellyfish Nebula.

IC 443 can be found in the constellation of Gemini.

The Jellyfish nebula is a supernova remnant some 5,000 light years away from us. I have captured this not to long ago, but this time I didn't use the reducer and I had the pleasure of the dark sky of kielder

Data captured at Kielder Forest, UK. 25_03_2025.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Best 25 light frames from 30, 120 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using DeepSkyStacker

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2 & PixInsight.

The little pinwheel galaxy in Ursa Major. A face on unbarred spiral galaxy some 40 million light years away.

First discovered on the 18th of March 1787 by William Herschel. It's 2 main spiral arms are predominantly blue, which suggests mostly young hot stars inhabit them.

Many fainter more distant galaxies can be spotted in the background.

All data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

21 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Captured 26/01/2023 just before 3am

The bright red star to the far right is RR Ursae Minoris a 4.7 magnitude binary.

-Magnitude is used to measure the brightness of stellar objects, the higher the number, the fainter the object.

-A binary star belongs to a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound together and locked in orbit around each other.

Boring techie bit,

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & Altair GPcam

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Neewer Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

104 exposures of 120 seconds each with the best 50% stacked together with calibration frames. 2 images were produced from the data. One stacking on the comet, one stacking on the stars. Separately processed then combined together.

Software used, PHd2, DeepSkyStacker, StarTools, Affinity Photo.

This little spider really is teeny, maybe not as big as my pinky fingernail. It has built a solid home base here between two dried flower stalks in one of my sea lavender plants. The stalks are maybe 7-8 inches (20 cm?) apart, and she (maybe) has it well anchored so it barely shimmers in a breeze. Day 2 of my bugging her with a light squirt of a water spray bottle. Pisses her off I'm sure, sends her into defend/attack mode. I just spent a few minutes with her then let her be. She snuggles up under that housing she's built and guards her sea lavender domain I guess. The plant is covered really well in webs. I'd love to see her with a fresh catch. The yellow background, by the way, is the flowering lantana.

A couple of techie notes: I did use a ring light here - a tradeoff - throws more light into her abode, but did seem to wash out the strands of webbing. The other is I used Denoise with mixed feelings; it had some trouble around the spider footsies and web strands. Be sure and check her LARGE.

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher

He wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I've got a job waiting for my graduation

Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise

I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Timbuk3.

Also known has the Cocoon Nebula. Lying close to the constellation Cygnus the cocoon nebula is about 15 light years across and roughly 3,300 light years from us.

Inside this nebulous cloud is a group of young stars blasting out so much radiation that they create this wonderful floral looking emission nebula.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

Best 90% of 44 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Better known as The North American Nebula.

An emission nebula found in the constellation of Cygnus. It lies at 1,700 light years away and is some 100 light years across.

It is the hot young stars within the nebula emitting radiation which ionises the surrounding interstellar gas & dust causing it to glow.

Boring Techie bit:

Data captured with an Askar FRA400 telescope with 0.7x reducer at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.

Mount used was an EQ6r Pro

Camera, ZWO ASI 533mc pro with an Optolong L'Enhance filter.

Altair 50mm guidescope with a ZWO 120mini camera used for guiding.

All controlled with an Asiair plus.

70 exposures at 180 seconds each + darks, flats, dark flats & bias.

Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 3.

It could be but it's not.

It's my new fitness watch.

Like many others, we have gained a few "pandemic pounds" we need to get rid of. We thought fitness watches might provide some motivation to get off the couch more often. My wife did the research and our son (the resident techie) helped us figure them out.

It incorporates more features than I can understand but learning how to use it has been a fun project.

It even vibrates every hour to suggest I get up and move around. It's surprising how quickly a sedentary hour passes these days.

Tracking my activities (steps taken, flights of stairs climbed, kilometres cycled or walked, etc.) really has provided motivation to be more active. It has been too easy to spend time indoors (and close to the refrigerator).

I know... we shouldn't need another digital assistant to get us off the couch, but so far this gadget has given us the boost we needed.

Sunset light gently highlighting the skyline across the Riddarfjarden water, taken from the city hall but needs viewing large to appreciate all the detailed buildings.

Techie info :- Nikon D750 with 14-24mm f/2.8 lens at f/7.1, Lee Super Stopper ND grad filter giving a 213 second exposure at 24mm, ISO 125. Taken at 20:34 pm as sun set.

Captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/ 02/01/2025.

Located over 2,500 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus new stars are being born in this stellar nursery.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400 with .7 reducer

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Best 85% of 61 light frames 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias with DSS.

Processed using Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

It's real fun to take photos of bowling. So many options!

View on black.

This ended up explored, with a highest position of 72. Yay!

If you want to see other versions of it, here it is SOOC. And here, cross-processed (too gritty!). Did this for 365 Community's Monthly Techie Challenge.

Also known as Caldwell 3.

A barred spiral galaxy found in the constellation of Draco close to the dragons tail.

First discovered by William Herschel in April of 1793.

NGC lies 11.7 million light years away.

Data gathered on 5th of March 2025 at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong UV/IR 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

180s exposures.

40 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias

Stacked and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Another shot from our Christmas stay in Wales. Reminds me of the film Brigadoon:-)

Recovery disks turned up Monday but unfortunately I had no success with them. Techie guy reckons my new hard drive is a duff one:-( Engineer is coming out on Friday to hopefully fix it, so we are still without our home computer - boo hoo. Mind you yesterday I would have found it difficult to focus on anything after a very 'merry' New Year's Eve party - lol. Spent the day vegging on the sofa watching TV.

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Picards%20Wharf/56/142/24

Bellissaria fun exploring on our ridable Sharks mix of Culprit Sharkipoo and Jian sharks

Hey, is that a camera?

"Casual and Techie"

Jacket: Barbie

Top: Barbie

Pants: Barbie (Hunger Games Katnis)

Shoes: Barbie

Bag: Bratz Boyz

Eyeglasses: Barbie

iPad: Integrity Toys (Dynamite Girls Accessory Pack)

As I was leaving an office yesterday, I noticed this book on a table in the waiting room. At first I thought it was.a new issue of National Geographic magazine. Then I realized it is a book.

Time And Navigation is an unlikely subject for a waiting room. I thought - how wonderful, all the visitors must be techies!!

IMG_2953 - Version 2

He picked up his first controller before he was even one year old... hahahaha

Tiger Woods of the Gaming World...hahahahaha

(Sorry son you Dad is a techie geek)

Found in the constellation of Cygnus, the veil nebula lies about 2,100 light years away and spans a distance of roughly 110 light years.

It is the remnants of a star that died about 8,000 years ago.

The blast wave is still expanding out and as it comes in to contact and interacts with cooler gases we get the lovely colours.

This is a 4 panel mosaic captured from the Astronomy Centre close to Todmorden, UK.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400 with 0.7x reducer.

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+

Each panel is made up of twenty 2 minute exposures, gain 101, temp -10c.

Processed in PixInsight and Affinty Photo.

The 4 panels were combined using Microsoft ICE.

My friend David Barnes has been following my Black Rock/Brighton Marina series and has sent me some images he took in late 60’s/early 70’s showing the construction of the marina. For the techie’s amongst you the image was taken on Ilford HP4. Brilliant quality.

Location: Backyard

Originally shot 20 years ago. I posted the bottom shot after editing in Photoshop CS5.1 in 2023 The shot above is just a screengrab of that original, but with a little further enhancement in the free version of 'In Pixio'. This is a pretty hi-res image and if you're interested in techie stuff you can enlarge both pics and take a liesurely stroll through the details of each one. I think I can see some tiny improvements in the latest version, but it may all be imaginary.

All rights reserved, Pat Durkin

Press L, then press F11

Look for it 27,000 light years away in the constellation of Hercules. Also known as NGC 6341 it is one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way and was first discovered by Johann Elert Bode in 1777.

With an estimated 300,000 stars 100 light years across it should be quite easy to find in a pair of 10x50 binoculars, the best month for observing it is July.

Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Askar FRA400

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair Starwave 50mm & ZWO 120mm mini.

Best 90% of 120 light frames 60 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats using DeepSkyStacker.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Along the belt of Orion, the left most of the three stars in the belt, Alnitak. Can be found IC 434 the Horsehead Nebula. It also holds the designation number 33 in the Barnard catalogue.

Also easily visible is NGC 2024 the Flame Nebula, found just to the left of the Horsehead in this image.

Boring Techie bit:

Data captured with an Askar FRA400 telescope at The Astronomy Centre, Todmorden, UK.

Mount used was an EQ6r Pro

Camera, ZWO ASI 533mc pro with an Optolong L'Enhance filter.

Altair 50mm guidescope with a ZWO 120mm mini guide camera.

All controlled with an Asiair plus.

Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo.

A barred spiral galaxy often called the Vacuum galaxy.

Found in the constellation of Ursa Major some 60 million light years away, it's estimated to contain around 1 trillion stars.

Several other galaxies are also visible.

Boring Techie bit:

Telescope: Skywatcher Quattro 8"

Mount: EQ6r pro

Camera: ZWO 533mc pro

Filter: Optolong UV/IR.

Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+ using Altair 60mm guide scope & ZWO 585mc.

88 light frames 180 seconds each.

Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias using WBPP in PixInsight.

Processed using Graxpert, StarNet2, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

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Min Skin. BRABOS

Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514

After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42

Min Blushes and Freckles. BRABOS

Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514

After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42

Min Eyes. BRABOS

Event Harajuku 原宿 → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Intimacy/119/65/2514

After December 12th will be in the Mainstore → maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/LondonMall/141/171/42

.Altered State. // Baggy Puffer

JAKE / LEGACY M / KAIRO

MAITREYA / LEGACY F / EBODY /KUPRA

21 TEXTURE HUD INCLUDED

Store: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glass%20Beach/180/211/20

.Altered State. // Techie Necklace and Earring Set

NECKLACE & EARRING SET

NORMAL AND ELF EARS

Store: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Glass%20Beach/180/211/20

Darn, this is how I am feeling: I just spent a very frustrating hour trying to figure out how to make layers in Adobe Elements 6, and how to merge two photos. Absolutey no success, unless elevating my blood pressure and learning several new swear words can be called success! SH...!!!! My book doesn't give basic info, and the web online advice does not either. I could not even get the layers palette to open or figure out how to see which photos I had already opened...grrrrrr..I need a tutor! Hug a Horse showed me once and made it look so easy (well, for her..she's the sister with the techie brain!)

Note :This is revised: I cropped the door window frame out as suggested by mississaugapictures

I also found some good BASIC info on About.com and printed it all off so I can try to follow the steps...wish me luck..!

Tied with MissyV110 as winner of "Our Memories Our Times" group, Domestic cat contest Feb/09

BRAT CAT OF THE WEEK, JANUARY 24, 2011

Apparently this was viewed over 37,000 times somewhere on reddit.com on Feb 2, 2011...wish I knew the actual source!

View On White

Duck!!!!! (yeah I know it's not a duck....)

Techie info: Nikon D200, 300mm F2.8 VR, hand held, 1250/sec, f4.5, ISO 320

Down at the DISCO

www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/32f429idiscovery.html

Melanie, me and Christina! I remember this very well, I think it was 1989. Recently back in touch with Chris - am so glad there's a picture of us from that time. Melanie (Christina's sister) now works as a fashion designer, Chris is a computer techie and does a lot of climbing and surfing in her free time. Both are very glam these days. I don't know what I do, really... but I still co ordinate my tops and accessories.

We're in my garden holding guinea pigs Pearl & Barney's babies. I'd forgotten about the rope ladder.

34,000 light years away towards the constellation of Canes Venatici lies the impressive globular star cluster Messier 3 (NGC5272). It contains upwards of half a million stars and is actually heading our way. M3 is moving towards our solar system at approximately 147.6 Kilometers per second!

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.

Futaba retreats into the beats.

- - - - -

Created for the #FlickrFriday theme, #MUSIC.

I study nuclear science

I love my classes

I got a crazy teacher

He wears dark glasses

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

I've got a job waiting for my graduation

Fifty thou a year'll buy a lot of beer

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise

I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes

Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing alright, getting good grades

The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades

I gotta wear shades

Timbuk3.

civic center plaza - san francisco, california

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Today I was spinning at this club called Absinthe's Dive Bar & Afterhours located in Nightmare city. LGBTQ+ friendly, awesome techie design with a whole bunch of neon! Home for a wide variety of electronic music genres. This picture was taken at this very special - surprise - set presented by "House of Pandora".

So in case you are interested in hearing my tunes we have enjoyed just follow this link: www.mixcloud.com/PanziePandy/live-at-absinthes-dive-bar-and-afterparty-07052023...

I invite you to meet the club (and the city). Just search for "Lucid Dreams" and you will be there! and if you wanna check out my music live I will be back at the venue on July 12, 2023. For notices and more informations (as well as a free cab for the parties itself) you can join my very own DJ Group inworld, at the link: House of Pandora

This set of star trails just tickles me, on an eve when I had more or less decided I'm saturated with the challenges of such exercises. (1) I wasn't sure if I was going to get North, because I had some restriction on where I could put the tripod. This cool old stone structure was actually on a curve on a dirt road - to get any further away from it would put my tripod in the road (not that I expected anyone to be driving a rough old dirt road after dark) and I wanted to show the corner to get two sides of the structure, which meant pointing NE in this case. And I wanted to be low so the stars would show through the openings. (2) There are 3 - count 'em, 3 Iridium flares from satellites in this image. Two are really bright and longer than the 3rd, which is over the left side of the structure. Amazing stuff.

Techie notes: Canon 5D Mark III with 14mm F2.8L, ISO 2500, 30 sec @ F2.8 x 154, or about 1 hour 20 min. I also lighted the interior with a blue neon glow stick at the end but decided it took away from the stars so I dropped that image.

I wonder if a techie from SJ will use AI to hijack my photo.

Women of Color in Tech stock images, Women in Tech stock images

27,000 light years away in the constellation of Hercules, M92 is one of the brightest and oldest globular clusters we know.

Tightly packed together it contains a mind bogglingly 330,000 stars, you know, give or take.

The German astronomer Johann Elert Bode is credited with the discovery of M92 in 1777.

Boring techie bit.

Skywatcher quattro 8" S & f4 aplanatic coma corrector

EQ6 R pro mount guided with an Altair 50mm & GPcam setup

Canon 450D astro modded with Astronomik CLS CCD EOS APS-C clip filter. Intervalometer used to control the exposures.

70 exposures of 90 seconds at ISO 800 stacked together using DeepSkyStacker along with calibration frames.

All other processing done with StarTools.

Located in the constellation Cepheus and probably better known as the Wizard Nebula. I have to say, from the perspective we see it from 7,000 light years away here on Earth, it does look like a wizard wearing a pointy hat in a robe with baggy sleeves.

The NGC number 7380 is actually for the young 5 million year old open star cluster that has formed within the nebula.

Do you see the wizard in the image?

All data gathered on the 01/08/2024 at www.astronomycentre.org.uk/

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

120s exposures.

Best 80% of 75 light frames.

Darks, Flats, Dark Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

Often referred to has the little dumbbell nebula, M76 lies approximately 3,400 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.

M76 is a planetary nebula, expanding gas clouds being shed by the dying star at the core.

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" with f4 aplanatic coma corrector. Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount. Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope& ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini.

ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101.

Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

40 exposures of 180s each.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked and processed in PixInsight.

Nathan blitzes the techie rock garden

This diffuse emission nebula also designated SH2-86 in the Sharpless catalogue is the home of the young open star cluster NGC 6823, visible in the centre of the image.

The nebula is estimated to be just under 6,000 light years from us and can be found in the constellation Vulpecula.

Data gathered at www.astronomycentre.org.uk

Boring techie bit:

Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.

120s exposures.

Best 80% of 57 light frames.

Darks, Flats & Bias.

Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in PixInsight & Affinity Photo.

NGC 1499

Also known as the California Nebula.

Found in the constellation of Perseus, this emission nebula is about 1,000 light years away and roughly 100 light years from end to end.

Boring Techie bit:

Captured with an Askar FRA400 telescope

Mount used was an EQ6r Pro

Camera, ZWO ASI 533mc pro with an Optolong L'Enhance filter.

Altair 50mm guidescope with a ZWO 120mm mini guide camera.

All controlled with an Asiair plus.

Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo.