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Didn't do much in the way of imaging this past Winter, but I did try to get a few hours of the Orion region whenever I could in February. Orion's gone behind the trees now and dipping into the Walmart Dome of Daylight, so no more chances. I believe this is about 2 to 3 hours of 3 minute exposures at...

LONG IN THE TOOTH, that is. You are bound to get a very warmhearted feeling after watching Richard Dreyfuss ( Close Encounters of the Third Kind). It's for all of us who wanted to be Astronauts from way back in the Mercury 7 days:

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Tom

I'm with Steve. Beautiful work there, Roger!

Tom

Ouch. Like learning there's no Santa Claus. Academically necessary, but otherwise a real letdown. Although, this image does have the essence of Unicorn. Maybe I'll go with that.

Tom

Hi Roger, I went back & forth and see that in the "Full "image a bit more of that subtle smoky blue in left hand of the image. However, In those same areas, the contrast with the dark gas is more pronounced in the "Reduced" set. The less defined core in NGC2247 is not somethi...

That's a really nice job on the Flaming Star nebula, Pete. One thing you could do ( matter of taste). Go to the Color dropdown. Select Hue. Lessen it. You will see the image gets brighter as you enter the realm of B&W. If you just lessen it a little it drops the Red saturation.

Tom

The 2 minute exposure is my favorite. I think it is spectacular!

Tom

I agree, Pete. Great blog, and Rod is a master of Celestron SCTs as well.

Tom

Beautiful, Pete. Subtle warm & cool grays and tints make this very pleasing to look at.

Tom

Very nice, Roger. Wonderful that you could get out there and capture it.

Tom