What to do when your very first astro-image shows up on the NASA website?

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Apr 29, 2025 · Edited: Apr 29, 2025

This is the very first thing I imaged after getting my C8 + Hyperstar + ASI2600MC + Apt-T dual narrow-band filter + EQ6-R from a guy who had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery and couldn't lift the scope or mount anymore.

Crazy. I had no idea what I was doing at the time.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CcfcBRkzv/

https://www.astrobin.com/7p2zlu/

Quinn Groessl

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Apr 29, 2025

That's awesome, to me it would be like the ultimate honor. Hope you've recovered well from your bypass.

John Stone

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Apr 29, 2025

Quinn Groessl:
That's awesome, to me it would be like the ultimate honor. Hope you've recovered well from your bypass.

Quinn, thanks for the kind words, but I want to be clear that isn't wasn't me that had the heart surgery; it was the guy I bought my first telescope from that I took this first picture with.

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Aug 28, 2025

John Stone · Apr 29, 2025, 08:12 AM
This is the very first thing I imaged after getting my C8 + Hyperstar + ASI2600MC + Apt-T dual narrow-band filter + EQ6-R from a guy who had to have quadruple bypass heart surgery and couldn't lift the scope or mount anymore.

Crazy. I had no idea what I was doing at the time.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CcfcBRkzv/

https://www.astrobin.com/7p2zlu/

Well done apply for a job !
Super congratulations !!!!

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