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Brian Maurer
Desert Center, CA
07/03/2023
09:00 pm

Equipment Details:

stock Canon t5i with a Rokinon 135mm lens, shot at f4, 400 images at 2 minutes each. Tracking with Ioptron SkyGuider Pro.

Post-processing Details:

Stacked in PixInsight and processed in Photoshop.

Image Details:

Rho Ophiuchi Cloud is the closest star-forming region to Earth. It is an area with emission nebula, dark nebula, a nearby globular clusters.