Rosette Bloom(NGC 2244)

This composition took 30 minutes of light capture and 80 hours project duration of alignment tests and focus tuning, but the result was worth every second under the stars under my Bortle 4 skies.

Used my Celestron Nexstar 8se telescope with Sony A6000 connected camera under ISO 1600. I used long exposure of ~ 80 hour to grab this much quality and light calibration of instant dark subtraction.

processed with help from Photoshop.