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A single clear night break in the clouds. So I took the opportunity to break out the telescope!

Despite the light pollution from Vivid, city lights from Sydney and my laptop charging cord dropping out — got four okish Astro images tonight.

1. Triffid Nebula
2. M83 face on spiral galaxy
3. NGC 3627, tilted spiral galaxy
4. The M4 globular cluster

Nice to have a clear night!

Before I collected the last data of the Elephant's Trunk this month, I slewed to the Ring Nebula before it got fully dark out and imaged it for 17 minutes with the L-eNhance filter. It was considerably smaller than I thought it was going to be at 700mm of focal length, but BlurXTerminator and the 1.1"/pixel resolution came in clutch and allowed me to crop the image substantially to reveal the Ring up close.

34x30s lights (17 minutes), flats, biases stacked and edited in PixInsight.
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🌌 Ring Nebula (M57)
🔭 Meade RB-70 (Scope), SkyWatcher GTi (Mount)
📸 Player One Ares-C Pro (Main)
📅 Bloomington, MN (Bortle 8)
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