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While looking for images for Doug's Thursday Task I came across a Deep Space Astro image I had started to process but never finished. If I recall correctly it was because of all of the "gunk" in the image. I had been only imaging up close and tight until then, and when I shot this one wider, I...

I went out to Joshua Tree National Park in an area that is Bortle 3 to capture this. The Rosette is one I have captured before, but it never gets old. It's easy for me to get too picky when processing this when comparing this to all of the great Astro we have posted here. But for an unmodified...

On my way back to Colorado and beyond for fall color I knew I had a night or two where I could do some Deep Space Astro photography. It wasn't a huge window since the moon was at 2/3rds to 3/4 full. So the sky at night didn't get dark enough until about 1am on this night and by 5am it was...

The travels are blurring together a bit this summer now, but this was taken from the Dallas Divide outside of Ridgway Colorado. It's most famous for all of the fall colors taken there in the fall, but now that I have gotten into Deep Space Astro I have found it has remarkedly clear skies there...

For this one I combined the data from 2 different nights a week a part. I shoot primarily with the Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens, and after my first night out I started taking notes and also making an effort to shoot any of my DSO targets at the same Focal length each time, just so I can stack data...

This was from a month ago out in Joshua Tree National Park. I have a favorite little spot to set up there that has almost the whole sky open to shoot. I gave up on processing this one at least twice over the last month. It's a super faint Nebula, it's one you can't see by eye or see in the...

This is one from almost 4 weeks ago that I took out in Joshua Tree National Park, it's the Antares Region. I had shot it previously and liked what I got, but it's one I wanted to try again. There is a lot of trial and error still with the processing, but to an extent with the shooting too as I...

This is the Andromeda Galaxy M31. It's one of the ones I took longer images of last week to get more detail in them at Joshua Tree which is a Bortle 3 sky (Pretty Dark). It's a rushed editing job with my mom in the hospital, but I wanted to get a go at this one since I didn't like my earlier...

This is the California Nebula, if you rotate it in your mind, you can see how they came up with this name. I am including 2 more images for those who just might be a little curious. The first is the Stacked image coming out of the DeepSkyStacker program that is a Freeware program for Astro...

This was from the end up of the night as it doesn't rise above the horizon until about 4am. I thought it had some cool color and shape to it. I am still working on my post processing obviously, but I am pretty happy with how this turned out since I was struggling a bit getting the red of the...

So this is my first shot at Antares Region and only my 3rd time out using the SkyGuider Pro to capture Deep Space Objects. I felt much more comfortable each time I go out, especially with trying to find these Deep Space Objects. Since my gear is as basic as it gets, I can't just push a button to...