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The Dumbbell Nebula (M27)

The Dumbbell Nebula (M27)

strongThe Dumbbell Nebula (M27)/strongbr/The Dumbbell Nebula from my backyard in London ON.This object has been a long time favourite of mine as a visual target so I was pretty excited about attempting to image it. I was worried it would be too small for my setup but was pleasantly surprised when the first single sub came up at how bright and detailed it was despite its size. This photo is pretty heavily cropped to help see some of that detail. This image is a stack of 129 x 120s subs (4h 18 min total) gathered using a Skywatcher Evostar 72ed with 1.0 field flattener on a Star Adventurer 2i mount with a Canon t6i (stock) DSLR camera at iso 1600. The equipment was guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 guidescope with asi120mm mini guide cam. The camera was controlled with NINA, and guiding with phd2. Individual subs were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and the final image was stretched and processed in Photoshop.
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