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Image 1 — Google said I couldn't do it
Image 2 — Google said I couldn't do it

Google said I couldn't do it

Very far away, at the edge of the Solar system, there's a dwarf planet Eris, that many heard of, but never seen or captured with a telescope. The problem is that it's very faint (magnitude 18.5), and constantly moving across the sky, so you can't do multi night imaging. I recently captured Makemake with Dwarf 3 and thought that I can capture something even dimmer. Although Google said that you can capture this object only with aperture starting from 8 inches. I was planning to try capture Eris for over a month now, waiting for clear moonless night, so I could take full advantage of my bortle 5 area. So on 3 october, I deployed and polar align my Dwarf 3, and created imaging plan. Because Eris was not in atlas, I added a nearby star, HD 10955. At the morning I processed the data. Because Eris looks similar to a star I used a Siril script for asteroid and comet finding, and Eris was exactly at the center of this dimm dot I marked on first photo. I also used Stellarium to confirm that it is actually Eris. This dot as actually looks slightly blurry, because of 5 hours of motion. So, Dwarf 3 is capable of capturing Kuiper belt objects, despite its tiny aperture!

Telescope: Dwarf 3;

Exposure: 5 hours;

Subs: 120s 70gain;

Bortle: 5;

Processed in Siril

u/AnakixSpace — 10 days ago
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Triangulum help

Ive I recorded this on my dwarf mini with 60 gain, 299 60 second exposures with my astro filter. Utilized stellar sudio to denoise and lightroom for finishing touches. I live in a bortle 7 area, is this the max detail im able to reach under my conditions? Ive taken a good amount of nebulae and have an andromeda galaxy picture with more detail and similar times and conditions.

u/Classic-Horse6243 — 10 days ago

C33 Eastern Veil Nebula

Got to visit a friend in Vermont and her backyard is darker than mine (on Long Island in NY). Set up a short session and was surprised how only 150 photos in a bortle 5.5 area got such good results.

About 150 45 second exposures
Gain 60
Duoband filter
Bortle 5.5

Processed in Stellar Studio, Astro Wizard and Photoshop.

u/DangReadingRabbit — 10 days ago
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NGC 7793 | 95 mins | Bortle 8 Southern Hemisphere 🥲

I am planning to buy one of those SUV tents. And then will plan trips out of the city so that I can get better quality, longer times, and different bands as well.

Dwarf mini | 15s | 60 | 380 frames | Astro

u/Efficient_Invite_626 — 10 days ago

I “Heart” my Dwarf 3

Taken from the Bortle 4 skies of Norwich Astronomical Society’s observatory in South Norfolk. (https://norwichastro.org.uk )

60 seconds exposure at 60 gain, a little under 5hrs of data with a Dwarf 3.
Stacked in Siril using the RC Astro tools and then the faux SHO look using the AstroWizard software.

u/Repulsive_Okra — 10 days ago

The Helix Nebula 🌃😎💖

The Helix Nebula is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the night sky. Located in the constellation Aquarius, it is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.

It resembles a giant eye because of its circular shape, surrounded by expanding shells of gas containing ionized hydrogen, helium, and oxygen. The ionized oxygen gives the nebula its distinctive blue color in images.

The Helix Nebula is approximately 650 light-years away from Earth.

📍 Captured from Asyut Governorate, Egypt 🇪🇬

🔭 Telescope: DWARF 3

⏱️ Integration time: 4 hours

🌌 Shutter: 60s

🎚️ Gain: 60

🖥️ Processing: Siril & SyQon Studio 🔥

u/Mohamed_Alaa11 — 10 days ago
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Pacman Nebula !! NGC281

Decided to go after the Pacman Nebula whilst in Greece recently and carried it on once back in the UK this week.

Total of about 3.5 hrs of data, stacked using StackingWizard and processed using AstroWizard.

Hope you like !!

u/wskelding — 12 days ago