I decided to try C 19, the Cocoon Nebula, again. This time would be from the back yard in equatorial mode. At the outset of the night, I did a goto to C 19, and it hit the neighbors’ house. I changed the schedule to start after 11pm, and got the Pinwheel Galaxy M 101 first.
The night of July 4th, I decided to image the Fireworks Galaxy. The result was underwhelming, so I looked at the Wikipedia article on it, and found out that it got its name because of an unusual high rate of hypernovae. The Wikipedia photo looks good, so I’m guessing that the photographer has much more experience and better equipment than I have.
I installed the new software yesterday, and scheduled a mosaic of the veil nebula again. I went from roughly astronomical dusk to astronomical dawn. For a few minutes before dusk, I decided to get the Dumbell Nebula, partly just to see if it was visible from my usual spot.
I think I’m going to try a mosaic of the Veil Nebula, yet again. The reason is that DwarfLabs released new firmware, which makes improvements with mosaics, including scheduling and maybe the preview of what the mosaic will look like.
This time I made HD 198626 the subject of the photo. I hoped this would keep the framing closer to what I requested, but it didn’t turn out very well. The framing is different from last night’s attempt, but still not what I requested.