Iris Nebula



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Date: 6 September 2021
Location: High Halden, Kent
Exposure: 60 x 120sec at ISO 1600
Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180ED on Skywatcher EQ6 mount
Camera: Canon EOS R (unmodified)
Guiding: Nikkor 300mm lens with QHY5 camera.
Filters: None
Processing: Stacked in PixInsight and stretched with Arcsinh Stretch
Comments: Sky quality averaged 20.80 but extracting those faint dust clouds is a big challenge with only 2 hours of data, even with my fairly dark sky.