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Shot in true color (with Ha added) in Borrego Springs earlier this month at the Nightfall star party, this is one I have attempted several times at home and it's never really worked out. It needs a dark sky. Casper is a rather famous reflection nebula in Orion not far from the Horsehead and the Great Orion Nebula. About 1,500 light years distant, Casper is a dynamic star-forming region containing about 45 T Tauri stars (young stars that are still forming) and 17 Herbig-Haro (HH) objects (objects that are not quite stars but presumably will be soon). Several of the HH objects are visible in the image as bright red dots surrounded by cold, dark dust.Details: Celestron EdgeHD 1100 telescope with 0.7x reducer; 10Micron GM1000HPS mount; ZWO ASI6200MM camera; Chroma LRGB filters and Chroma 3nm Ha filter for the hydrogen-alpha signal); 9 hours exposure time.

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This image is the deepest I have ever taken and by far, it is the farewell to my precious Canon as the main camera, the end of a chapter in the hobby, the culmination of an era that has lasted 6 years.

It's 46 hours of integration
125x600s + 300x300s
With modified Canon Eos 600D and newton Ts Photon 154/600 f3.9
Baader Mpcc coma corrector and Baader Bcf filter.
On Skywatcher neq6 pro2 mount guided off-axis with Zwo Asi 290mc.

Made remotely from the Dark Energy Observatory, Àger, Lleida, during January and February 2022

Copyright: Gerard Tartalo Montardit, Dark Energy Observatory, Ager. Societat Astronomica de Lleida