Stats

The nights, hours and moon behind the gallery

30nights out
261 hof exposure
30,398frames
52targets
38/48at their goal

Clear nights

Every night the scopes were out since first light, shaded by hours of exposure.

MayJunJulAugSepOctNov

less more · each square is a day; hover for the night

Integration over time

JunJulAugSepOctNov261 hMay 4: first light

Shooting through the moon

Hours per moon phase. Dual-band filters cut through moonlight much the way they cut through city glow, so a bright moon rarely ends a night: 13 of 30 nights out had the moon more than half lit.

narrowband broadband
🌑 0–25% lit · 12 nights68.2 h narrowband · 40.1 h broadband
🌓 25–50% · 5 nights36.4 h narrowband · 26.2 h broadband
🌔 50–75% · 9 nights38.8 h narrowband · 25.1 h broadband
🌕 75–100% · 4 nights14.8 h narrowband · 11.5 h broadband

By scope

Dwarf 3146.5 h 56%
Seestar S30 Pro114.5 h 44%

By filter

Narrowband (dual-band Ha/OIII)158.1 h 61%
Broadband103.0 h 39%

By kind of object

Emission nebulae124.5 h
Galaxies53.2 h
Supernova remnants27.1 h
Planetary nebulae15.8 h
Reflection nebulae15.5 h
Star clusters6.0 h
Other0.4 h
Solar system0.1 h

Deepest

  1. IC 1805 / IC 1848 Heart & Soul 13.6 h
  2. IC 405 Flaming Star + IC 410 Tadpoles 12.5 h
  3. NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet 12.0 h
  4. IC 63 + IC 59 Gamma Cas Nebulae 11.7 h
  5. NGC 281 Pacman 10.0 h

Most nights

  1. IC 1805 / IC 1848 Heart & Soul 7 nights
  2. Veil Nebula complex 7 nights
  3. NGC 7331 + Stephan's Quintet 6 nights
  4. IC 405 Flaming Star + IC 410 Tadpoles 5 nights
  5. NGC 1499 California Nebula 5 nights

Best nights

  1. Oct 18 15.6 h · 10 targets · both scopes
  2. Oct 17 14.8 h · 6 targets · both scopes
  3. Oct 20 14.1 h · 7 targets · both scopes
  4. Oct 10 14.1 h · 7 targets · both scopes
  5. Oct 19 14.1 h · 10 targets · both scopes

Goals

38 of 48 targets have reached their depth goal. Closest to the line:

IC 417 Spider + NGC 1931 Fly
3.0 h of 3 h goal
M31 Andromeda Galaxy
4.9 h of 5 h goal
NGC 7635 Bubble + M52
3.0 h of 3 h goal
NGC 2174 Monkey Head
2.9 h of 3 h goal
NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula (C 27)
2.9 h of 3 h goal
M35 + NGC 2158
1.4 h of 1.5 h goal

Calendar, curve, moon and totals count everything captured (261 h); the leaderboards and goals count what went into the finished images. Moon phase is computed for about 11 pm on each night.