Finally got average seeing, AND and Io transit, AND on a non work night!

I have been under 1/5 and 2/5 seeing forecasts for so long I was excited to see 3/5 on the forecast, especially with clear skies AND on a Friday WITH an Io Transit. 

The seeing was in an out of avg with some real moments of almost good, so I gave it a 3+/5

I gave the night a good solid 50x RGB runs and kept the best 8.

Deroated and composited. 

My winter galactic fun

 I always love the longer winter nights, they're cold and there's tons of my favorite DSO to observe.  Galaxies to me are all so unique and far away!

Here's NGC2336, with specs: Dist:90–100 MLY, Size:7.1′×3.9′, Mag:10.3 V, Type:SAB(r)bc (barred spiral)

NGC 3359-2026-01--19-20-21-L

 I need a new camera, my SBIG8300M is dying and causing issues staying connected all night and now that it's 14years old I'm looking for a good full frame mono and an upgrade to my 1.25" LRGB filters!  I'm open to recos, TIA!

I also need to rework my processing routine, I didn't include here but used Deepskystacker

M109 in my home built 14" with SBIG8300m

I really am ready for a full frame upgrade, but have been trying to hone my DSO skills with NINA and my OAG, which makes finding a guide star hard, but that's a topic for another day.  

I was quite pleased with how this came out with a 1:1 ratio of Lum and R, G and B

3rd Interstellar comet - 3I/Atlas

 I  stayed up really late to get this as I am not ready to set alarms for MPC/Comet/Deep sky... no reason other than I get to stay up late!

Any way, I snuck in some color and included the Tycho Tracker measurements too!

Thanks and enjoy!

Arp 285 (an interacting pair), and Arp 1

 I've been using AI to gather the infoblocks in my images and found quite a lot of inconsistencies with these, but the contrast in morphology in this single frame is amazing, I love the barred spiral near the face on spiral!  It's like finding sea shells in the sky!!!

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