Seeing and transparency last night were horrible and I ended up getting dew on the mirrors in one telescope and having the front element fog up on another before the fog and clouds finished my nigh for me last night, but at least I got to get out and do some imaging. I need a dew heater for each telescope badly. Still, I did have some fun. I think I will take a week off in July and find a place that has low humidity and incredibly dark and clear skies to go camping with stuff. Also, I need to get more integration time on M4 and the nebula around it because after stretching the data and then denoising it (it is only 12 minutes worth) I got weird banding and gradients in it. Actually, all this stuff is very little integration time due to the seeing conditions.

















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IC 2725 - 1,166 million light years, IC 2729 - 1,090 million light years. It is my new distance record!

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Nice work.

Death Valley.

My mom, grandpa, and aunt do all live in Pahrump...

Perfect.

A great place to use as a base. Nevada has some great dark skies too, in the central and upper interior.