Empire Ranch or Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
October 14, 2017

Another Banner-tailed Kangaroo Rat from last night.
The ones close to me are getting tamer as they get used to me being here.

Comet C2017 O1 (ASASSN1) passing by a small nebula, NGC 1624. This is a very small, dim comet, took me a long time to find it. The stacking program seems to have changed the color of the nebula and I can't fix it. It should be mostly red, I think. Twenty-two one minute exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker comet mode.

A Flame Skimmer.

Great Spreadwing, largest damselfly in the United States.

Pleiades or Seven Sisters, M45. I shot at f4 so no diffraction spikes. 

I thought I was shooting the Cave Nebula and instead it turned out to be the Wizard Nebula.
I'll have to try for the Cave Nebula some other time. Both are on the edge of Cepheus.

American Rubyspot, one species of damselfly that I already know.

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