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10th October 2025

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Curiosity fuels every beginning, excitement lives in the unknown... Over the last few weeks I have mostly been forced to focus on learning how to process images - The night sky has not been my friend. We've had a lot of haze, and cloud and then the full moon. My friend complains about the moon all the time and I never fully comprehended just how much the light from the moon can wash out a target. An image I took on the night I put my SeestarS50 out and realised the moon was ruining everything Since My last post: NGC2070 (Tarantula Nebula) : Data collection Complete.  I ended up with 10 h 44m 30s of data and integrated 5h 8m 40s in the final stack (see below 2 examples of this data after processing). M8 (Lagoon Nebula) : Data Collection at 4h 36m 50s  IC 434 (Horsehead Nebula) : Data Collection at 4h 5m 30s NGC 7293 (Eye of God/Helix Nebula) Data Collection at 32m 30s I have tried several different work flows bought 2 separate books.  The first one (Pixinsight user guide 2...
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27th September 2025

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Nothing meaningful in life is easy...  Several years ago I was miserable, I had lost touch with who I was, just blindly following along blindly on a trajectory to.... nowhere! My relationship at the time fell apart and the tiny fragments of myself I had attempted to hold onto all had to be thrown to the wind... and afterwards I didn't know who I was anymore, I looked around at my world and I couldn't find a single piece of "me" left. I kept pushing through, surely it would all get better... right?! I went to work every day, I fed and bathed my kids, and I went to bed exhausted and defeated.  I needed some inspiration, I didn't hate my job, in fact I loved it, but i would go to work crying everyday, the smallest thing would go wrong and I would be in tears at my desk hoping no one would notice. After about 4 months I handed in my notice and signed myself up for a diploma in counselling. I gave myself time and space and although financially it was REALLY challenging...
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