DWARF 3 vs Draco on the Heart Nebula: What’s Not to Love?
Two DWARFLAB smart telescopes, one Heart Nebula (IC 1805), one Siril workflow: 7 hours 48 minutes on a 35mm DWARF 3 from a Bortle 6 driveway against 3 hours on a 90mm…
Deep Sky Sessions
Session reports from actual DWARF 3 imaging runs on deep sky targets including galaxies, emission nebulae, reflection nebulae, and star clusters. Each post documents the target, capture settings, sky conditions, processing workflow, and what the data revealed.
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DWARF 3 Milky Way From an Airplane Window at 38,000 Feet
Thirty seconds. That is all the light in this DWARF 3 Milky Way image, shot through an airplane window on a night flight from Korea to Thailand. The DWARF 3 sat by…
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DWARFLAB Draco vs. DWARF 3: First Real Data on the Eastern Veil Nebula
In August, I called Dwarflab Draco a dragon hunting inside the DWARF 3’s kingdom. At the time, that headline was a bet. The only number DWARFLAB had confirmed directly was 90mm of…
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DWARF 3 Filter Test: 7nm vs 30nm on the Eastern Veil Nebula
We measured a front mounted 7nm filter against the DWARF 3 built in 30nm filter on the Eastern Veil Nebula, matched regions, same night. Here is what the SNR numbers actually showed.
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From 8 Minutes to 157 Hours: One Year of Deep-Sky Imaging success with the DWARF 3
M51 was the first target with the Dwarf 3. August 2025, Alt-Az mode, 8 minutes and 30 seconds of 15-second subs on a galaxy low in the summer sky. The telescope was…
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Trifid Nebula M20: A Warm-Up Session Low in the Sagittarius Steam
I didn’t go into the July 16 session expecting a keeper. The Trifid nebula was more of a question than a plan: what does the DWARF 3 actually do with a target…
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Iris Nebula NGC 7023: Six Hours of Blue Light With No Duo-Band Shortcut Available
The iris nebula (NGC 7023) is a reflection nebula, not an emission nebula. The distinction isn’t cosmetic. An emission nebula like the Eagle or the Clamshell glows because ultraviolet radiation from nearby…
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Eagle Nebula M16 in EQ Mode: What 12 Minutes of Alt-Az Data Couldn’t Show
The Eagle Nebula (M16) first showed up in this blog back in January, as a cautionary example rather than a subject in its own right. The Alt-Az vs EQ mode comparison post…
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Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, Captured with the DWARF 3
Antares and Rho Ophiuchi never gets high from a New England backyard. At roughly 42 degrees north latitude, the star tops out somewhere around 20 to 30 degrees above the southern horizon…