I accidentally permanently deleted my full disk white light AVIs today before processing,, so I just have a single, record shot taken throught haze. However, I did manage to get some decent video in H-Alpha mode, and I have included those images and crops. As Spaceweather reports: "Sunspots AR3691 and 3697 have 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic fields that harbor energy for X-class solar flares." The white light image is deceptively peaceful; the HA images tella very different story!
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
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The Horsehead Nebula with the Dwarf 3
Here's an image of the Horsehead Nebula captured under my Bortle 8/9 skies. There's 2.38 hours of total integration time, captured i...

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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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The clouds melted away last night with a northerly breeze and a clear, transparent sky opened up. As it does not get dark until around 10...
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Like the Ring Nebula, the Dumbbell nebula is a planetary nebula marking the end of a star's life as it puffs off its outer layers into s...
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