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me put my DSLR on it. While I was on the
trip, Lynn showed me my own photograph
of the Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) in the
August 2003 issue of Astronomy. I couldn’t
believe it.

Going remote
Also around this time, Doc, MAS mem-
bers Greg Sellek and Matt Mills, and I
were setting up the Doc Greiner Research

Observatory (DGRO) to run remotely.

This was a pretty big deal in 2005. I col-

lected data for processing, while Matt and

Greg looked for asteroids. The DGRO has

moved a few times over the years, finally

settling in what is now Dark Sky New

Mexico (DSNM) near Animas. Once we

had our setup at DSNM running smoothly,

I began helping others set up their obser-

vatories, and I have become knowledgeable

4. This obscure part of the Veil Nebula
   is sometimes called the Leaping Leopard
   Nebula. Simeis 3-210 is a long, thin
   filament at the extreme southern end of
   the Veil Nebula and is virtually unknown.
   To the author’s knowledge, it has never
   before been imaged at this resolution,
   which was achieved with a 24-inch
   PlaneWave telescope on a PlaneWave
   Ascension 200HR German Equatorial
   Mount, using an SBIG STX 16803 camera.
   This Hα/OIII/LRGB image contains
   exposures of 10, 11, 3.75, 3.75, 3.75,
   and 3.75 hours, respectively.

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