rosette nebula

I captured this earlier in the week in Joshua Tree National Park, my favorite dark sky area and a nice short 2 hour drive when I am in California. I need to find a similar dark sky site close to Colorado that doesn't sit below freezing in the winter time. iOptron GEM28 tracker Nikon D850 - Not...

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...

Nikon D850 Tamron 150-600mm @ 300mm SkyGuider Pro - Tracker

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...

So once again, I was surprised to find that this has never been posted on FW (or at least I cannot find it anywhere on the site.) Perhaps because while it shows lots of promise, it is a bit of an embarrassing image, and serves as a cautionary tale to try not to let your excitement in the moment...

This was taken 3 weeks ago in February but I just got to start processing this. I probably spent about 8 hours on this one. There was quite a few total restarts on this, mainly from the Starnet++ program that removes stars. I would run the program but not really like the artifacts that it could...