M8, the Lagoon Nebula (2024)

 

This is data from ATEO-1 at Starbase.  ATEO-1 is a 16" f/3.75 Dream Aerospace Systems astrograph, one of the premier imaging telescopes available.  This is just 170 minutes of data, but it is clean and deep and fun to work with.  This image is Ha-OIII-SII in a modified Hubble palette.

NGC 1555, Hind's Variable Nebula (data from 2021)

 

I've wanted to collect on this target for a long time.  It's actually positioned over my latitude, but it can't be shot from the suburbs easily.  I tried to shoot this once and only collected the brightest part of the nebula in a noisy and grainy stack.  So someone else whose telescope is in the southwest Utah desert collected this data, and this is my rendition.

This is 100 minutes of Lum combined with 50 minutes each of RGB from Starbase's ATEO-1 telescope, a 16" f/3.7 Dream Aerospace Systems reflector.