December: Test shots with new scopes/mounts
Dec 21: TMB 80/480 Arrives!
Dec 3: AP1200 Arrives!
Nov 30: TMB 152/1200 Arrives!
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This is IC 410, aka, the “Tadpole Nebula”, an emission nebula and open cluster (NGC 1893) in the constellation of Auriga. This is my first attempt at automation with CCD Commander. I made a bunch of newbie mistakes, but eventually got it up and running.
Mousing off the image reveals a “Hubble Palette” narrowband image, with
I'm still fighting some star trailing/smearing in my images with the new camera/scope/mount, as yet undiagnosed. Thanks much to Neil Flemming's Trick, I was able to reduce that smearing. A higher resolution image is also available. North is up.