I remember watching the Iris Nebula for the first time with my 224MC camera in EAA mode. I still think this is one of the most fascinating objects in space. I tried imaging it twice before, last year. The first round I wasted a good 6 hours of data by using the wrong filter. The second time I forgot to check the weather reports and ignored a wind warning causing most of my subs to be ruined. 

So here’s about 9 hours or so on this magnificent object. The combination of blue core, dark dust and gold speckled stars is just something else.

In other news, I upgraded my coma corrector to the TS GPU and while doing some tests yesterday I immediately noticed the difference in quality, so this is my last image with my baader mpcc.