#dwarf 3

I'm working on two long term projects right now to get as much exposure time as possible on two targets, the Soul Nebula (on which I currently have a little over 5 hours) and the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas.

This is the first 2 hours and 40 minutes of exposure time on the Horsehead and Flame.

Our local weather is rather cloudy and rainy right now, so I'll probably have to hold off a little bit on getting more data until around the first or second week of the new year.

Specifically Orion and the Running Man.

I captured this over two nights with about 5 or so hours of integration time. I used a dual band (hydrogen alpha and oxygen III) filter for half the data and a broadband light pollution filter for the other half of the data. I then blended the results in photoshop to get the result I have here.

The sub-frames themselves were 60 second exposures at 60 gain for half and 15 second exposures at 60 gain for the other half for the dynamic range I wanted in the bright Trapezium of the larger Orion Nebula.

This is the second of the two long-term projects on which I am currently working.

This is 10 hours of integration time from Bortle 8-9 skies, 30 second exposures at 60 gain while polar alligned.

My initial plan was 10 to 12 hours of integration, but I think the image would benefit from a little bit more time on target. Maybe 15 hours...?

Die M33-Galaxie, auch bekannt als Messier 33, NGC 598, Triangulum-Galaxie oder Dreiecksnebel-Galaxie, ist eine Spiralgalaxie in etwa 2,7 bis 3 Millionen Lichtjahren Entfernung. Sie befindet sich im Sternbild Triangulum und gilt als das drittgrößte Mitglied der Lokalen Gruppe, zu der auch die Milchstraße und die Andromeda-Galaxie gehören. Mit einem Durchmesser von rund 50.000 bis 60.000 Lichtjahren ist sie kleiner als die Milchstraße, besitzt aber dennoch etwa 40 Milliarden Sterne.