M16 from KL

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mymoon
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M16 from KL

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Image this from downtown KL

Image

A crop image taken with

Camera : canon 60D modded
Filter : IDAS LPS clip on front filter
Telescope; Edge C11
Mount : NJP Temma 2
AutoGuide : QHY5+ 50mm guide scope + PHD
Exposure : 12X 3.5 minutes
Darks : 6 numbers
Flats : none
Bias : none
ISO :2000

C&C welcome. My first DSO from KL.

thanks for looking

Cheers
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cataclysm
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Re: M16 from KL

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Ah nice! Especially when it's taken from KL, light pollution must be just as bad like in Singpore. :P
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Good stuff! Thanks for sharing. Nice celebration of end of haze. :)
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Thanks to both Cataclysm and Gary for the words of encouragement.

I measure by this method the SQM as 17.46 at the beginning of the imaging session at 01:30 the time of moon rise. It was cloudless sky till 02:30.

I live right at the boundary of the white and the red zone on the Bortle Scale.

I wonder how the image would turn out from Mersing. :P

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Thanks Mystiq.

Yes I got tired of planets and moon.

Have to try my luck imaging from KL with f/10.

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