Hello all. I will introduce myself.
I'm Mike van den Berg from the Netherlands.
I live near Amsterdam.
I've been doing astrophotography from my backyard observatory for about 30 years.
Started with black and white film Kodak TP2415 and in 1995 switched to digital astrophotography.
In 2016 I decided to stop the hobby because of the extremely bad conditions in the Netherlands.
In addition, it gets worse every year.
But after dramatic developments in my private life I picked up the hobby of astrophotography again.
But no longer from the Netherlands.
I decided to go remote and chose Roboscopes.
As of today, I applied to be a team member of pier 14.
I love widefield imaging.
So far my introduction.
May I already be so free to make some suggestions for photographing a number of deep sky objects.
I would like to list the following objects.
There are also objects that are not visible now, but try to choose it so that the system can pick up an object that is conveniently placed at any time of the year.
In short, choose such that the objects are spread over the entire northern starry sky and a small part of the southern starry sky.
Here are some suggestions: M11, M31, M42, M45, M78, M81, IC63, IC342, IC405 & 410, IC434, IC1396, IC1805, IC1848,IC2177 (Seagull nebula), Sh2-240, Sh2-157, SH2-155. Abell 426 (Perseus Cluster), Abell 2065, Abell 2151 (Hercules Galaxy Cluster), Abell 1656 (Coma Galaxy Cluster), IC2118, NGC2264, NGC6946, NGC1499, Double Cluster in Perseus, NGC2237, UGC10822 (Draco Dwarf), Sh2-205, Vdb14&15.
I understood that the exposure time per sub is on average 2 minutes.
So I stick to that. As for the filters and exposure times, we can talk about it.
I also understood that you are working on some beautiful mosaics.
Only downside is it takes a lot of time. But a few of mosaics per year should be possible.
Especially those objects located in the Milky Way.
Mike