Astrophotography: The Fighting Dragons of Ara, captured from the north (latitude 30.5°N)!!!

During a full moon in June.. frustrated that my current WIP targets were obscured too much by the moons light I decided to play around and see how low to the horizon I could image. Maybe I could steal a southern hemisphere target.

I am in Central Texas, near Austin. Looking in Stellarium I could see that one of my favorite southern hemisphere targets crested a mere 10°. So I slewed over, expecting to have it obscured by my fence. Turns out it clears the fence at 8.5° It also looked pretty good, despite the moon. We had a string of clear nights i the forecast and so I decided to make a real go at it. The results blew me away.. never did I think it would have been possible to capture this target from my backyard. Now.. what this has done has unlocked a whole host of targets I had previously written off.

Equipment used for this shot:

Telescope: AT115EDT
Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro
Filters: Astrodon 5nm, Ha & Oiii


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