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Taken 11-Oct-15
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IC2087 to DG42

This image shows the dramatic region around IC2087 which is the bright nebula close to image center. Fainter and smaller nebula DG42 (LBN806) is located in the upper right. Lots of dark nebula action here.

After stacking this, I noticed two streaks in the image. quot;Asteroids!quot; I thought, and sure enough, two asteroids were in this area. Labeled version here.

Technical details:
Date: Oct 11, 2015
Time: 1:45 pm - 4:40 am
Camera: SBIG STF-8300M
CCD Temperature: -5 C
Optics: Televue 127is (native)
Filter: AstroDon L
Light frames: 19x8 min
Dark frames: 25
Flat frames: 25
Flat darks: 25
Binning: 1x1
Guiding: Orion SSAG @ Orion finder (~162 mm)
Mount: AP Mach 1
Dithering: Manual
Processing: Stacking in CCDStack, Curves, Levels and noise reduction in PSCS6.

Other notes:
A rather uneventful night. Practically no wild life, but perhaps that's because I bought a sleeping bag, and I spent a big part of the night taking 5-minute cap naps between exposures. This left me the most refreshed I've ever felt after a session like this. I got home at 6:30am, went to bed at 7am, and woke up at 9am without much of an issue. On my drive home, I did see a field mouse crossing the road. While that itself is very common, this particular mouse had a comically long tail. The tail must have been 5x the length of the rest of the body.

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Keywords:DG42, IC2087, LBN806, LDN1527, LDN1528, LDN1532

IC2087 to DG42