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Over the Bastille Day weekend, to escape the heatwave.
This time, I decided to take multiple exposures to stack them. So, there are ten 20-second exposures, pre-processed with five dark frames.
Astrophotography night on the Vercors High Plateau from September 18 to 19. We heard the deer roaring all night long!
NGC 7497 is a galaxy located 24 Mpc, or 79 million light years, in Pegasus. It is also well behind the interstellar dust of our galaxy.
39 x 5 min
Camera : Nikon Z6 partially unfiltered
Telescope : Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor.
Mount : ZWO AM5N.
Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on QHY OAG-M
Temperature : 3°C
Humidity : 100%
SQM : 21.3
Software : acquisition with Astro Photography Tool, processing with PixInsight.
Location : Vercors Highlands
An unmarked trail on the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors. A wild place that I love. Perfect for getting lost and recharging your batteries.
Thunderstorms last night in south-east of France. A bat was lit up by lightning, right in front of my camera.
The wind, the rain, the clouds… the mood that comes with it
July 2024
Clear and moonless sky for New Year’s Eve. I had to go out. The target was IC 443, a beautiful nebula in Gemini. A target I had already photographed in February 2023 but I didn’t remember it!
IC 443 is a supernova remnant that is believed to have exploded 30,000 – 35,000 years ago.
62 x 2 min
Camera : Nikon Z6 partially unfiltered
Telescope : Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor.
Mount : ZWO AM5N.
Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on QHY OAG-M
Temperature : -3°C, -1°C
Humidity : 80%
SQM : 21.1
Software : acquisition with Astro Photography Tool, processing with PixInsight.
Location : Le Plan, Le Banchet
NGC 281 is a HII region, a cloud of ionized hydrogen, located in Cassiopeia. It is about 10,000 light-years from Earth with a diameter of 100 light-years. Its shape roughly resembles to Pac-Man, hence its name.
Acquired on December 28, 2024 for the production launch of my new ZWO AM5N equatorial mount which allows me to lighten the setup by 30 kg. A very appreciable weight saving in nomadic astrophotography!
54 x 2 min
Camera : Nikon Z6 partially unfiltered
Telescope : Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor.
Mount : ZWO AM5N.
Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on QHY OAG-M
Temperature : 1°C
Humidity : 70%
SQM : 20.9
Software : acquisition with Astro Photography Tool, processing with PixInsight.
Location : Le Plan, Le Banchet
