2026-04-25 07:53 UTC
@derek I’m in north-east Italy, by the sea (so an all-you-can-eat of atmospheric turbulence), in a zone notorious for the amount of wind, that looks like this on the light pollution map (yes, I’m exactly in that purple blob)… 🤷♂️
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@skull@masto.ai 2026-04-25 08:03
@derek that said, that picture was taken with a Celestron NexStar Evolution 8”, an ASI533MC camera and a ZWO AM5N mount. The brightness of the background sky, joined by the sparse amount of stars in that part of the sky, makes autoguiding through an OAG difficult for this subject, so I decided to keep exposures relatively short (60s); the stack has 130 subs, left after removing another 50 in which the guiding stars were lost mid-shoot with the obvious consequences on the sub…