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The images below were captured during a visit to Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque. They are an example of what can be accomplished by a rank amateur under what I would consider moderate light pollution. My observing site was in front of daughter’s house with two street lamps and various front porch and patio lights blazing at me. The light was bright enough that I almost didn’t need a red light to see the letters on my laptop keyboard. Unless otherwise noted, these images were captured with my Orion ST120 and the Mallincam Color Hyper Plus camera. The color halos around bright stars are the result of the achromatic ST120. My next purchase will be an anti-fringing filter for the ST120. As with all other images currently on this website, these images are single frame exposures with no post processing. Exposure times were primarily 7 seconds for the clusters and 14 seconds for the galaxies and nebulae.   What you see here is exactly what I saw at the moment the images were captured.  I hope you enjoy these images.

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M1	M31, M32, M110	M33	M35
M36	M37	M38	M42 and M43
M44	M45	M46	M47
M48	M50	M67	M74
M77	M79	M81 and M82	M81
M82	M97	NGC 891	NGC 936
NGC 2903	Flame/Horsehead	Flame/Horsehead	Double Cluster

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