My journey in astrophotography began with a desire to capture what I couldn’t otherwise see in the night sky. The bright nebula targets in our galaxy were my first point of call, and even from humble beginnings using a DSLR, I was hooked! Upgrading to a better telescope and camera allowed me to capture galaxies with incredible detail, and nebula with gloriously wide fields of view. … But one target remained elusive. In the light polluted skies over San Jose, CA, I couldn’t capture the contrast needed to see the brown hue of interstellar dust.
In 2018, I returned home to Sydney, Australia and a few months later all my astrophotography equipment arrived. In June of 2019, I constructed my usual cadre of the AT8RC, QSI683WSG and Atlas EQ-G with the Lodestar X2 — this time though it was in a home made condensation proof setup. Who’d have known humidity was such a pain!
This image was constructed using:
That’s the most amount of data I’ve captured on a single RGB target!
There’a a high-resolution image and more data available on the Astrobin page for this nebula. For more info, see the wikipedia page for NGC6727/NGC6729.
