With 16 hours and 40 minutes of total integration, taken under a Bortle 3 sky, this is my longest integration time so far! It took me four different nights to gather all the data I needed, 9 hours for RGB and more than 7 hours for Ha.
@ igneis.nightscapes
Back in December, for those consecutive nights, I traveled to a remote and freezing place with no internet connection, spending the entire night alone inside the car. I had to drive an hour and a half each way. Back home, sleep, drive, repeat. I had enough time to watch the entire LOTR trilogy on my iPad along with both Dune movies. I had to wait a lot, time to be patient and to think, but I wanted to see what lay hidden in Orion’s surroundings.
Now that I see the result, I realize it was more about the journey and less about the goal, like so many things in life.
Equipment used:
Sony a7 III Astro mod
Sony 50mm GM f/1.4
iOptron Skyguider Pro
maksimkak on
Love this, shows how really dusty our galaxy is. This is perfect APOD material, hope you submit. It appears you have captured what’s called the [Integrated Flux Nebula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Flux_Nebula), which is all the interstellar dust faintly lit by stars in our galaxy.
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With 16 hours and 40 minutes of total integration, taken under a Bortle 3 sky, this is my longest integration time so far! It took me four different nights to gather all the data I needed, 9 hours for RGB and more than 7 hours for Ha.
@ igneis.nightscapes
Back in December, for those consecutive nights, I traveled to a remote and freezing place with no internet connection, spending the entire night alone inside the car. I had to drive an hour and a half each way. Back home, sleep, drive, repeat. I had enough time to watch the entire LOTR trilogy on my iPad along with both Dune movies. I had to wait a lot, time to be patient and to think, but I wanted to see what lay hidden in Orion’s surroundings.
Now that I see the result, I realize it was more about the journey and less about the goal, like so many things in life.
Equipment used:
Sony a7 III Astro mod
Sony 50mm GM f/1.4
iOptron Skyguider Pro
Love this, shows how really dusty our galaxy is. This is perfect APOD material, hope you submit. It appears you have captured what’s called the [Integrated Flux Nebula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Flux_Nebula), which is all the interstellar dust faintly lit by stars in our galaxy.