LBN576 Garlic * RASA 8" F/2 * 7.5hrs * bright

 Posted: Sep 24th, 2026
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Telescope/Lens: Celestron RASA 8
Camera: Player One Ares-C
Mount: ZWO AM5N
Software: Nina, PixInsight
Exposure:
227 x 120" ISO/Gain: 125 - Antlia ALP-T Dualband 5nm
Orange, Bortle 6 zone:
 Sofrino, Russia
 Sep 15th, 2025
7 h 34 m
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A brighter version, for looking at rather than peering into.
Current photo Updated
  24 Sep, 2026
  7 h 34 m
A brighter version, for looking at rather than peering into.
  24 Sep, 2026
  7 h 34 m
Starless version
  24 Sep, 2026
  7 h 34 m
Little garlic bulb. A faint nebula that standard catalogs don't even know about -- I had to aim by coordinates. This one needs many nights, but now I'll have to…
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We need to call grandpa, grandma, granddaughter, Zhuchka, etc., and pull, pull.
It can't be that on a race, with a hole of 2, there's so little signal, or the filter is completely unsuitable. I say this because I've been shooting this object for 3 years already, you can look in my profile.
25 Sep, 2026 Reply
Ankorot Replied to Oleg Novoselov
Yes, it turned out dim. I've already stretched the histogram (as I think) as far as it can go. It's dim even for a race.

Here, two nights were accumulated between clouds. Now it's until next year.

Can you see the nebula on your single shots?
25 Sep, 2026 Reply
Oleg Novoselov Replied to Ankorot
Yes, it's visible in hydrogen, oxygen is not visible.
25 Sep, 2026 Reply
Ankorot Replied to Oleg Novoselov
You're right - my gain is, of course, 125 (IMX571, Poseidon-C). I'll fix it in the description now.

I looked at your single frame. Yours shows better. On my single frame it's not visible: if you don't know there's something there - you won't find it.

The filter, of course, is for fast systems - I took many other frames, there are no problems there.

I can't come up with an explanation for why mine is so dim: you have larger aperture and more photons, but I have less focal length and more photons per pixel (because there are fewer pixels) and with our D and F, my image should be brighter (smaller, but brighter), and it's not.

Maybe the sky was gray (there haven't been truly dark nights in September).
25 Sep, 2026 Reply

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