By Adiba Shaikh | 2025-02-25
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Just below the bucket of the big dipper
On 02/26/2025 01:00 am by Andy Dungan | Website | Near Cotopaxi, Colorado USA
This was a fun photo. I realized as I was setting up that I could just barely get both objects in the same pic. Getting a planetary nebula and a galaxy in the same pic is pretty unusual. And to top it off both were Messier objects.
ASI585MC Pro gain 252, Askar V@600f7.5, 52 10 min exposures (8.67 hours)
AM5/ASIair+, Askar OAG with ASI174mini to guide
DSS to stack, Affinity Photo 2 to process, StarXTerminator to separate stars