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[BaloneyNZ]

IC 4592 (Blue Horsehead Nebula) 60gain, 145x60sec subs, Astro Filter, Bortle 6, Processed in PP.

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[Boki]

Hi, my first try on M67 in altaz mode. When the ballhead arrives i will try eq mode. CS, Borut

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[Starlancer]

Probably the best image I've gotten out of my Dwarf 3, stacked in Deep sky stacker and quite a bit of work in pixinsight with some photoshop color correction too

 

[calli]

I watched a red balloon 🎈 flying over my place. Oh there is a white one was up too. It did not move. Got the 8x24 out... Oh a crescent? Checked on astro app. Mercury! 🤓 Got my dwarf3 out and captured my first daylight Mercury (not counting a solar transit)

 

https://photos.app.g...caV6QvpiYJDZtD7

 

 

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[Dale Smith]

M81 and M82 last night with my Dwarf 3, along with four other galaxies. 15 seconds/gain 60/261 subs.

 

Amazing what the D3’s FOV can find during galaxy season:

 

 

Annotated via astrometry.net

 

 

[Psion]

NGC6888, Bortle 4, exp. 430x15s, processed in Siril and PixInsight.

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[Psion]

Crop version.

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[Psion]

NGC7000, Bortle 4, exp. 300x15s, processed original Fits in PixInsight.

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[BaloneyNZ]

C92 Carina Nebula Bortle 5, 116x60sec, gain 60. Rotated and processed in PI. Another go at capturing and processing a target I looked at a few months ago. 

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[calli]

Wow. 

[Psion]

Stacked 40 images.

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[calli]

Did you use the dwarf3 stacker or an external Programm? My last stack looks a bit worse but external stacking is better but costs so much time...

[BaloneyNZ]

M8 - Lagoon Nebula, Bortle 6, Dual Band, 49x60sec subs, Gain 60, EQ-Mode, Processed in PI.

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[Starlancer]

Was able to sink more time into North American/Cygnus area.  It does control star shape well to the corners, makes me wonder if they could have used a larger sensor.

 

This was processed though pixinsight with blurx and noisex, also some color correction and stretching.

 

[Psion]

Sun today

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[MrNeil]

wow guys, Im a complete newbie, never imaged anything other than lunar with Nexstar 6SE and 600d Astro Modded camera. Rather than spend £££ on lots of hardware I have taken the plunge and ordered my Dwarf 3, looking above I cant wait, great way to learn stacking and processing and not worrying about whether I have even hit my target, very excited about what this thing is capable of and posting images from it.

[Dr. Megabyte]

First light with my new D3, ran everything with all default settings, took this shot of M13 from my Bortle 6/7 driveway.  Ran for only 15 minutes .. but a very exciting start!!!

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Edited by Dr. Megabyte, 19 June 2025 - 12:40 AM.

[Dr. Megabyte]

Second night out ... From living here for years, I know that the Lagoon Nebula (M8) gets high enough in the sky to clear my neighbor's roof line slightly after midnight here in June. Plus, the clouds cleared up ...

Even in my Bortle 6/7 back yard, M8 is an easy binocular object so I figured it would still be an easy target for my "second light."

I let it run all on its own for slightly longer than 1/2 hour, gathering 132 frames.  I let the D3 auto-stack and auto process with Stellar Studio in "auto" mode.  I'm pleasantly surprised at how well it did.

 

Of course, this morning, I'm actually reading the manual, and discover, "Oh hey, the D3 has a built in, optional nebular filter, I should have used that last night." 

 

I guess the good news is that the defaults do pretty good, while at the same time, offering a wide range of adjustments for the more advanced user!

 

Nest Steps: A) RTFM, B) Try Equatorial Mode, C) Try a L O N G imaging session. 

 

 

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[Albut]

Dwarf 3, bubble/claw nebula. Processed in SIRIL. About 3 hrs of data. Processed SIRIL Hubble pallete.

[Boki]

Can someone please comment on this image. I have successfully polar aligned the Dwarf3, but i get elongated stars on the left side of the image. I suspect the centre is also affected. Any ideas what may be wrong? Thanks. Borut

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[Dr. Megabyte]

M101, Pinwheel Galaxy. 15 second exposures, Gain = 60. 245 images, Alt-Az (Not equatorial).  Stacked using Stellar Studios.  

Captured at Sky Meadows State Park, a "Dark Skies" state park here in Virginia.

 

 

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[bradhaak]

North American Nebula (NGC 7000) from last night. It's about 100 minutes of 30-second subs with the dual-band filter, and then processed from the stacked TIFF in PixInsight. I kept the processing subtle to preserve as much of the nebulosity as I could.

 

More time would have been welcome, but then again, that's always true.

 

[Dr. Megabyte]

Anyone have a D3 image of the Tulip Nebula? (Sh2-101, LBN 168)

[MrNeil]

Very new to Astrophotography in general and just recieved my Dwarf 3, this is an image of NGC7000 and IC5070, my nebula processing is still definately a work in progress. there were only 77 lights that covered a 2.5 hr period, so 2 minute exposures at 10 gain with the dual band filter on a very warm night in Bortle 5 skies. Stacked in Siril and processed in Sirl, Graxpert and GIMP.

 

 

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[MrNeil]

This was my first image (of anything other than the moon  )

 

C27 Crescent Nebula, with much processing to learn, 2 hrs of exposure so 180 x 60 Exp at 60 Gain, dual band filter in EQ mode.

 

 

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