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Hura... I just got an email from  http://www.fotocommunity.de The Horsehead and The Flame image will be tomorrow between 11 and 12 AM set as front (main) image when you will navigate to that page. Oh boy, Im so glad... Take care friends Emil EDIT 15 of April. It is there... about 900 views in 15 minutes

M81, M82 and IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula)

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M81, M82 and IFN Until now this one is the hardest  project done in team with Emil Pera. In January he asked me - being done with the Rosetta Nebula - if I have some target insight, after my negative answer I got a "what about the IFN? what do you think about it?". It was more than OK for me and because I'm that kind of person that believes only what I see, I ignored the notices found over Internet like "For IFN you need a good sky" and so on. And here we are, after weeks of work, nights lost because I have used the wrong star to center and frame the objects (about 2 nights in fact) and some sweet words addressed to Lady Moon  (exposed 60x1200 sec exposures to realized that, in fact, for IFN you really need moonless nights) we managed to use 47,5 hours of data. Emil Pera 4 minutes exposures summing 12 Hours Equipment 8" Newton F/3.3 with ASA reducer/corrector, EQ-6 mount, Canon 1000Da camera and TS OAG On my side (LOL you...