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PHOTO OF THE MONTH

The Christmas Tree Cluster

Nicole Poersch, Prestwick, South Ayrshire, November 2023–April 2024

Nicole says: “The Christmas Tree Cluster is one of my favourite targets. The weather conditions made imaging it really hard, but I managed to collect 17.5 hours of usable SHO data before it was too low in the sky.”

Equipment: ZWO ASI1600MM camera, William Optics Zenithstar 73 III refractor, iOptron CEM25P mount

Ha 38x 600”, OIII

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