Sharpless 166

[dcrowson]

Sharpless 166 (LBN 566 and others) is a faint HII region located approximately 7,700 light-years away in Cassiopeia.

Ha – 26x1800s – 780 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

900 minutes total exposure – 15 hours

Imaged over 11 nights from November, 2019 through January, 2021 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

HaRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 6/sizes/l/



Dan

[Graeme1858]

"Imaged over 11 nights"

That's proper commitment!

It was well worth the work.

I moved your thread to the new Remote Imaging forum Dan.

Regards

Graeme

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

great work and perseverance

[dcrowson]

I moved your thread to the new Remote Imaging forum Dan.

Why the move to Remote? While 1,200 miles away, it is no more remote than my driveway setup that I control from inside? It is all my equipment under my control...

Dan

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I mostly do solar from home because I live 300 feet from a major mall and 600 feet from a 24 hour factory, my skies are bortle 8, on a really dark night I can see 5 stars! Also I have 60 degrees of sky due to trees, even solar I can only see the sun for about 90 minutes a day just before the meridian.

as far as traveling I am a disabled vet and have severe problems with my legs as well as heart issues so I have trouble traveling. I try to do astronomy from here but it is a real challenge.

[Graeme1858]

I moved your thread to the new Remote Imaging forum Dan.

Why the move to Remote? While 1,200 miles away, it is no more remote than my driveway setup that I control from inside? It is all my equipment under my control...

Dan

Fair point well made! I'll take it to the team to clarify the criteria for posts in the Remote Imaging Forum.

Either way your Sharpless images are brilliant!

Regards

Graeme

[Ben Cartwright SASS]

I moved your thread to the new Remote Imaging forum Dan.

Why the move to Remote? While 1,200 miles away, it is no more remote than my driveway setup that I control from inside? It is all my equipment under my control...

Dan

Dan
I want to apologize for the previous post, I totally missed the point that you were making, that you image from home. I thought you were asking why people would image remotely. Now I see you were asking why your thread was moved.

Once again I apologize

Jeff