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by David Wills
Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:18 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2020 March
Replies: 105
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Re: Submissions: 2020 March

It's amazing what a 5.5-inch telescope can capture from 33 million light-years away considering one light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). This was quite a difficult image to process as I found it challenging to reveal the detail within the galaxy without overdoing it. Messier 95...
by David Wills
Fri Mar 06, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2020 March
Replies: 105
Views: 119507

Re: Submissions: 2020 March

NGC 2170 in the constellation Monoceros has got to be one of the most colorful Nebulas in the night sky that I have captured. This will eventually be made into a mosaic to capture the rest of this wonderful target, but it will have to wait until next year now as the moon is back and I don't image be...
by David Wills
Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:38 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2020 February
Replies: 103
Views: 100586

Re: Submissions: 2020 February

M51 this was a pleasure to image and to process another one of my favorites. Definitely, need to spend some more time on collecting more RGB data apart from that I'm pretty pleased with it. M51 was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. Its distance is estimated to be 23 million light...
by David Wills
Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:14 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2020 January
Replies: 132
Views: 151919

Re: Submissions: 2020 January

Horsehead Nebula LRGB,Ha. Taken from PixelSkies, Spain www.pixelskiesastro.com Horsehead Neblua (Barnard 33) https://www.pixelskiesastro.com/recent-images Copyright: David Wills https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce94f82e2673c0001838cc0/1578311345268-5C2MPXM80HMQ4DXDYFIX/ke17ZwdGBToddI8p...