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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 29/06/2026

work in progress, Iris Nebula and friends, continuing on from my previous dataset: www.bortle.org/datasets/19/... from ~7 hours to ~43 hours of luminance now. Shown here is a crop of the Sh 2-136 - Ghost Nebula. @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

NGC 7023, The Iris Nebula, Luminance ~40 hours preview, with the previous cropped image highlighted.

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 15/01/2026

More experimenting with some widefield H-alpha. Samyang 14mm f/2.4 XP at f/3.5 on ASI294MM, ZWO filters. No calibration frames, FastIntegration. #astrophotography #astronomy #heartnebula #soulnebula #californianebula #flamingstarnebula #nebula @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Wide-field monochrome H-alpha astrophotography image showing a dense star field across Perseus, Auriga, and Taurus. Bright emission nebulae are visible, including the California Nebula (NGC 1499), Heart and Soul region, Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405), and surrounding faint hydrogen clouds against a grainy stellar background.

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 05/11/2025

Experimenting with some widefield H-alpha. Here's some previews of how the first test night turned out. Strong gradients with all the LP here. Samyang 14mm f/2.4 XP at f/3.5 on ASI294MM, ZWO filters. #astrophotography #astronomy #cygnus #northamericanebula #cygnusloop @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Widefield H-alpha starless centered on Cygnus

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 24/05/2025

Sh2-308 - Dolphin Head Nebula 25 x 900s (6.25hrs) H-alpha 59 x 900s (14.75hrs) Oxygen III Raw data here: data.bortle.org/d/29/ @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

Sh2-308 - Dolphin Head Nebula in narrowband

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 19/05/2025

Quick test before the dew took over, monochrome broadband (about 2 hours total) of M13 from a pretty wide fov, MiniCat51 with ASI2600MM #astrophotography #astronomy @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 10/05/2025

work in progress, Vulcan Nebula, here is a preview of luminance channel collected so far #astrophotography #astronomy

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 23/04/2025

No worries, no rush, astrometry.net solver does solve it: nova.astrometry.net/user_images/... so it should work since the bot uses it also.

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 22/04/2025

First light with the miniCAM8M (IMX585 sensor), paired with the FMA180 Pro (f/4.5) for a compact mono imaging setup. Used a small cheap spectrometer to compare (just for fun) the included filters (XiMei) to a set of ZWO narrowbands. To me they look to be slightly better? #astronomy #astrophotography

North America Nebula in SHO palette, taken with a monochrome astronomy camera (miniCAM8) on a small wide field telescope (FMA180 Pro)

miniCAM8M (IMX585 sensor) pair with an FMA180 Pro telescope with an electronic autofocuser

spectrometer data from miniCAM8 narrowband filters

spectrometer data from ZWO narrowband filters

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 16/01/2025

Taking the full moon as an opportunity to collect some data on other targets. Might as well collect SII and OIII on this also? IC405 & IC410 - 48 x 900s (12hr) H-alpha #astrophotography #astronomy #nebula #space @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 10/01/2025

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy LRGBHOO image with a total integration time of 97.25 hours. The dataset is available under a creative commons license here: data.bortle.org/datasets/vie... #astrophotography #astronomy #galaxy #space

Image made with almost 100 hours of integration time on M33, The Triangulum Galaxy.

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 23/12/2024

Work in progress, still collecting data, Heart of the Heart Nebula, including Melotte 15. This is crop of a much wider FOV image. 71 x 900s Ha 86 x 900 SII 97 x 900 OIII

Heart (core) of the Heart Nebula, also known as Melotte 15

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 22/11/2024

Third channel, stack of 30 frames x 900s each, SII on the Heart Nebula from last night. SII in this region is quite rewarding. #astrophotography #nebula #ic1805 #cassiopeia #monochrome

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 22/11/2024

And now a quick stack of 25 frames x 900s each, OIII on the Heart Nebula last night. #astrophotography #nebula #ic1805 #cassiopeia #monochrome

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Paul Picazo @picazo.bortle.org · 21/11/2024

Quick stack of 16 frames x 900s each, h-alpha on the Heart Nebula last night. #astrophotography #nebula #ic1805 #cassiopeia #monochrome

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