The North American Nebula: Which target is more fitting as a first light for my telescopes new home in the heart of Texas. Already in the first week, I could gather more light than the whole year of 2024!

This rendition of this classic target is done in SII, H-alpha and OIII mapped to RGB in a classic Hubble Palette. Having collected the most integration time for such a bright target, I never had the pleasure to process such a clean image with this much detail and little noise. 

I started this project in May in Switzerland and since then, due to bad weather, I could not add a single hour of integration till my telescope was installed at Starfront Observatories. At this point, I would like to thank @Bray Falls, Josh, Nick and Jiro for the superb support during shipment and installation (I am sure the rest of the Starfront team is also in Astrobin). I could not be happier to join this awesome project. Expect much more to come, the latest image is already more than 20hrs in.