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M89 and 90 Area - Bortle 8.5

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#1 Jim Waters

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Posted 17 May 2025 - 05:11 PM

This was imaged from my backyard. No light pollution filters were used.  Seeing was good.  One hundred and twenty, 90 second subs.  I wanted more but I got started late and clouds were coming in from the west. I also had to delete subs because of jets and Starlink. Processed with PixInsight.

 

Equipment

- ZWO AM5N mount

- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro @ 0c

- Stellarvue SVX90T @ f/6

- ZWO Camera Angle Adjuster

- ZWO Filter Drawer

 

Image acquisition software

- NINA 3.2 Nightly 31

- ASTAP

- PHD2 2.6.13 Dev 17

- AstroBin Image.  Click on the picture to see high res image.

 

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Edited by Jim Waters, 17 May 2025 - 05:13 PM.

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Posted 17 May 2025 - 05:23 PM

Very nice Jim!  lots of Galaxies and the details are very good.  Clear Skies, Pat.


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Posted 17 May 2025 - 05:43 PM

Jim, your sharp stars are as nice as your galaxies. Is that a quintuple star system to the left of IC 3459?  


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Posted 17 May 2025 - 05:57 PM

Look at all the IC's!  Very clear and sharp image!  IC3475 got me started and then the rest of them showed up.


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Posted 17 May 2025 - 06:37 PM

I love the clarity! The stars are sharp and nice edge to edge. Is it possible there are a couple of windy subs still in the stack? I can’t tell if the couple of subtle asymmetric plumes on a few of the larger star are from wind movement in a couple of subs or legitimate signal. Beautiful image.
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#6 Jim Waters

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Posted 18 May 2025 - 12:16 PM

Thanks all.




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