It was a good night at the River Ridge Observatory. Cool but not too cold, clear skies, slight breeze. I got a late start after attending a star party earlier. My first images were just after midnight. I stayed until after 5AM. I considered shooting the sunrise on the way home but I was 30 minutes too early for that and I had been up for 26 hours except for three or four short naps.
Here is why you keep trying. It was lightly sprinkling when I left the house to shoot the sunrise at Vista Point for the fourth time in two weeks. I thought it might be a lost cause but as Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t try for.
For the time lapse, I exposed to the left at the beginning to avoid blowing it out later. Each frame was five seconds apart, sped up to ten frames per second. There was a double rainbow too but those shots didn’t turn out.
These were taken between August 3 and 7 during several days of clear weather. You can click on any for larger image.
The Veil Nebula in one picture. I used my 135mm Samyang lens with my ASI294MC Pro and Antlia Ultra RGB Triband filter. 12 five minute subs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_Nebula
Messier 13, aka M13, in Hercules. My 11″ SCT at f/1.9 with ASI533MC Pro and Antlia Quadband filter. 72 one minute subs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_13
NGC 7380. aka the Wizard Nebula, in Cepheus. My 11″ SCT at f/1.9 with the ASI533MC Pro and Antlia Quadband filter. 24 three minute subs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7380
