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I’m currently planning to reshoot everything I previously captured on a tripod and move on to shooting summer objects. I’m planning to shoot the Lagoon, possibly the Trifid, and the most challenging one is probably the Cat’s Paw, which only rises to 4° from my location in the Czech Republic. I also plan to capture 15–20 hours on Cygnus, covering the America, Sadr region, and the Veil.

I could also recommend you try shooting the constellation Cygnus at around 55–35mm. You can comfortably use exposures of about 10 seconds there, and then it becomes much more worthwhile to shoot for a couple of hours, unlike 1–2 second frames where after a certain point there’s no point in collecting more data. For me, for example, with Orion, a 4-minute stack was the same as a 20-minute stack, just with less noise — that’s it. After 25 minutes, the improvement stopped. And so on, so I think a project like this with Cygnus would be good.

Got it. By the way, I was also thinking of the Cat's Paw) it rises about 4-5 degrees for me too, but anyway... looking forward to your projects.

Oh, by the way, I noticed that too — at least I figured it out. You need to accumulate much longer exposures with these settings, so I agree with you. I'll think about the idea, maybe I'll do it. Right now I'm working on the Sadr region at 135mm, already have 1 hour 10 minutes. I plan to try fitting the North America Nebula, Sadr, and the Veil Nebula in one frame at 55mm, and accumulate 2-3 hours.

Well, you'll have a bit better luck with this since Bortle 7 and 5 aren't that different, but still, there's definitely a difference of a few times in sky darkness.
If I'm not mistaken, the difference is about 7-8 times.

Well, I think we're on the same level, but you'll get more signal per frame than I will.

Well, that's something. We'll see how it goes soon. I'll try to get out to the remote field more often, where the Bortle 6 is. And the EK 3 will definitely be better than the EK 2, at least because 60-70% of the time in the field won't be wasted on the mount not wanting to guide or something else.

Today I’ll try to capture the Dumbbell and the Coat Hanger. Such easy targets, but through the telescope, so I’ll see how well I do the polar alignment, haha.

Okay, I understand. In about a week and a half, I'll have a chance to go to a Bortle 3 site. I'm thinking about what to shoot. This will be my last project at least until the New Year's break, or possibly longer.

Waiting for the result) Clear skies — tonight I'm going after dark nebulae. I'll probably shoot either LDN 673 or B142.

I would generally recommend trying to make a mosaic of the Milky Way — it will be an interesting activity. I'll be able to do something like that in at least half a month. Overall, I plan to capture the entire Milky Way that will be visible over the year and then make a mosaic.

Good luck with that, and clear skies.

I looked into mosaics, but I haven't quite figured out how to make one of good quality yet.

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