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A good night for astrophotography. (At least, I think it was. I haven't processed everything yet.) This is the globular cluster M15. I found out on Saturday that there's a tiny planetary nebula buried in here. I was able to use a more professional image to locate *where* in here. But I still can't see it. But it's a beautiful cluster anyway.

@catherineryanhyde

That's a very nice image of . Your tracking was spot on. Can you describe the equipment used for this shot?

Stargeezer Smith

@catherineryanhyde

I cannot compete with you on small field . I have only have star photography capability.

To get your quality of images, I've used the publicly available . The half dozen or so telescopes are 6 inch Mak-Newts. One can schedule targets and get emails of raw images. I process them with a Yorick program.

It's a solution for those lacking equipment but having computer.

Here's my best .