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Posted: 12/4/2017 10:23:25 PM EDT
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Looking at the stars is when I really wish I had WP.
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Posted: 12/5/2017 12:27:11 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
Here is my report and pics of Orion from a few nights back. Sky Conditions - Very transparent, but a lot of turbulence due to a storm that just passed a few days earlier. - City sky glow Location - Southern Kalifornia - Elevation at location, 2100ft. - Temp - 52deg F - Humidity - 20% - Time of Night - 2130hrs Equipment Used - Celestron C11 CPC Series - 11" (279mm) Aperture - Focal Length - 2800 f/10 ***1764mm f/6.3 reducer not used in this session*** - Alignment Method - 2 Star - 40mm Tele Vue Plossl (1.25" adapter used with Tele Vue 2" Star Diagonal) - 21mm Tele Vue ETHOS - Tele Vue Proto PVS-14 Objective Lens Adapter - TNV-14 installed with L3 Mil Spec Omni 8 White Phosphor Filmless - 38.2 S/N - 82LP - .8 EBI - 2563 Photocathode - Galaxy S7 Edge on-board camera - Tele Vue FoneMate No narrow band H-a filters were used in these shots below of M42 Orion Nebula. The views below are in no way represented on how good the native eye through the eyepiece looked. It was stunning. No special doctoring of the photo's where attempted, nor any photoshop work. These are the raw images from the Galaxy S7. The gain was turned down on the 21mm ETHOS pics to mitigate some scintillation. The 40mm Plossl, the gain was full up and a bit nosier as you can see. 40mm Tele Vue Plossl http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/Clutch99/40mm%20Plossl_zpshurrc3ie.jpg 21mm Tele Vue ETHOS http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v621/Clutch99/21mm%20Ethos_zps4dwzvx3z.jpg |
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Posted: 12/7/2017 6:03:07 PM EDT
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This is a great thread in my op.
 . Thanks for sharing guys!!
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Posted: 12/8/2017 4:02:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jon101st:
I have a Celestron Celestar 8 Deluxe I got around 1999 or 2000. With this scope you have to set up the wedg correctly to pole north. It's a great scope and has a good tracking drive for photography, but it's all on you to set up level and find stuff. I learned allot about astronomy with this scope. To bad i forgot most of it 
I hear the new mounts do everything for you now. I guess I'm going to have to get some adaptors from you all now and dust off my scope. |
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Posted: 12/8/2017 8:17:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC: I've been using NV with my telescope for many years. In areas where there is light pollution and/or small aperture telescopes. a small 6" scopes can become a 10" scope when introducing NVD's to it. Good stuff! |
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Posted: 12/9/2017 12:42:49 AM EDT
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what would be a good starter scope to use with a single pvs14? I try a few times a year to hit the high sierra's for meteor showers which are cool as hell under nods. I would like to introduce my niece to the stars and since I have the NV it's a bonus.
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Posted: 12/11/2017 7:58:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor:
what would be a good starter scope to use with a single pvs14? I try a few times a year to hit the high sierra's for meteor showers which are cool as hell under nods. I would like to introduce my niece to the stars and since I have the NV it's a bonus. |
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Posted: 12/12/2017 1:01:33 PM EDT
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Heads-up, Earthlings!
The annual Geminid meteor shower has arrived, peaking overnight Dec. 13-14. It's a good time to bundle up, go outside and let the universe blow your mind! Get the details: http://go.nasa.gov/2jEepCC |
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Posted: 12/12/2017 11:22:18 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
What might be your budget? Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
Originally Posted By CaliContractor:
what would be a good starter scope to use with a single pvs14? I try a few times a year to hit the high sierra's for meteor showers which are cool as hell under nods. I would like to introduce my niece to the stars and since I have the NV it's a bonus. |
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Posted: 12/13/2017 10:56:27 AM EDT
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With near-perfect conditions in the offing, sky-watchers should get ready for an early holiday treat.
The Geminid meteor shower is upon us, and it promises to be one of the best shooting star shows of the year. The annual shower will peak this evening and into the early morning of December 14, when viewers can expect to see dozens of meteors an hour traveling at 20 miles per second. |
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Posted: 12/13/2017 5:31:40 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor:
Ideally under 1k as it will be used maybe 6 times year. Is that even doable? I do realize when it comes to glass you get what you pay for being a swaro bino owner. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CaliContractor:
Originally Posted By TNVC:
Originally Posted By CaliContractor:
what would be a good starter scope to use with a single pvs14? I try a few times a year to hit the high sierra's for meteor showers which are cool as hell under nods. I would like to introduce my niece to the stars and since I have the NV it's a bonus. There are sevreral options based on price, mirror size and portability, but the Dobs are good starting points. |
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Posted: 12/13/2017 5:47:22 PM EDT
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Saw a dozen in about an hour last night, but tonight should be primo!
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Posted: 12/13/2017 9:33:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
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Need to break out the lawn chair and maybe the stabilized binocs and on top of that the moon will not drown out the fireworks!
At 32,187m per second...Maybe the binocs will stay in the safe. 
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Posted: 12/14/2017 7:30:52 AM EDT
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A pretty good show here in the southwest at times this AM.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/14/2017 12:14:40 PM EDT
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Can y'all help me with something? I went out last night to watch the meteors with my TNVC -14 and when staring at the night sky, the honeycomb was incredibly distracting. I adjusted the gain all the way down until the image was basically dark, and it's still visible even then.
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Posted: 12/14/2017 2:49:50 PM EDT
[#16]
PM Sent
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CO, USA
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Posted: 12/14/2017 3:04:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: carlos87]
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The Rings of Uranus are much brighter in IR/Red I have heard. Would be cool to put a PVS14 on one of the very low focal length Naglers in something large like a C14 and look for it. If nothing else you might get a chance to see cloud detail in Uranus and Neptune visually as the albedo differences are much more prominent in the Red to IR spectrum. Another aspect of this is the IR light is less affected by atmospheric "seeing" conditions, so on the dimmer two outer planets, NV would probably be the best way to see them visually. When taking pictures of Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc most have used IR as the luminance channel as it's less affected by the atmosphere.
Hopefully this forum is smarter than GD and knows I am talking about the actual planet |
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Posted: 12/14/2017 8:54:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By carlos87:
The Rings of Uranus are much brighter in IR/Red I have heard. Would be cool to put a PVS14 on one of the very low focal length Naglers in something large like a C14 and look for it. If nothing else you might get a chance to see cloud detail in Uranus and Neptune visually as the albedo differences are much more prominent in the Red to IR spectrum. Another aspect of this is the IR light is less affected by atmospheric "seeing" conditions, so on the dimmer two outer planets, NV would probably be the best way to see them visually. When taking pictures of Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc most have used IR as the luminance channel as it's less affected by the atmosphere. Hopefully this forum is smarter than GD and knows I am talking about the actual planet https://www.youtube.com/user/jdbastro/videos  Saturn @ 350X in the Methane Band via Unfilmed Night Vision in Real-Time |
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Posted: 12/15/2017 11:15:26 AM EDT
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Has anyone found a cell phone adapter for a PVS-7 that actually works?
I like using my -7d for astronomy because it fills both eyes and is easier for other people to look through it than a -14. |
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Posted: 12/20/2017 8:43:53 PM EDT
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I posted this in GD in the ufo thread
I'v only had my NV for around 3 weeks and have not spent a lot of time looking at the stars yet. You all ever seen stuff like that in the sky. I've watch satellites before, but they just move in a straight line. This thing zigged and zagged fast. Went out for around 15 minutes with my pvs14's and seen some weird movement.
Very clear night I can see Andromeda galaxy directly above me. I was chillin and watching for satellites when I see what I think is one moving from North to South very fast. I had to track it by pivoting my head to keep it in my field of view. This thing started to change direction while maintaining the same speed. It would change course by about 10 degrees one way and then the other zig zagging  .
I was thinking if I was watching a meteor but it had no tail. It was just a tiny pin point of light just like a satellite. |
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Posted: 12/21/2017 11:16:47 PM EDT
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It's always amazing what you can see looking up into the night sky.
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Posted: 12/22/2017 1:29:42 AM EDT
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I wonder if what were seeing is light shining off of birds causing this effect.
I checked out the sky tonight with clouds and did not see anything but didn't watch long. If it were birds or bats I would think you would see the same strang effect on a cloudy night whith no visable stars. |
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Posted: 12/22/2017 4:58:31 PM EDT
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I’ve never seen one zigzag but I’ve seen satellites change direction without losing any momentum.
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Posted: 12/22/2017 8:53:24 PM EDT
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This zig zag was pretty cool.
 UFO SHOT LASER BEAM ANOTHER UFO WAR IN SPACE |
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Posted: 12/22/2017 9:49:53 PM EDT
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I need a partly cloudy night to see if these thing disappear behind clouds.
Some Cirrus or Cirrocumulus would be great as they are real high. |
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Posted: 4/30/2018 12:18:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
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If you have not seen it yet, Sky and Telescope did a great 4 page in-depth article on the TNVC A-focal adapter along with our 10 year warrantied Mil-Spec PVS-14 L3 Filmless White Phosphor unit written from Dennis Di Cicco. His pics taken with just a cell phone he depicted on some deep space objects were spectacular. He also talked about our new PVS-14 cell phone adapter with the TeleVue FoneMate.
It was such an honor to be mentioned in one of the oldest astronomy magazines out there, and a pleasure to meet Dennis and some of the S&T staff at their NEAF after hours event a few weeks ago. These are on the newsstands now. I hope you enjoy the article. 
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Posted: 10/13/2018 12:24:34 AM EDT
[Last Edit: NSFJojo]
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BTT the GD thread should push some traffic this way and this thread is easily one of the best ever posted. TNVC post more pics plz plz plz
ETA Sticky this ftw |
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Posted: 10/13/2018 11:14:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NSFJojo:
BTT the GD thread should push some traffic this way and this thread is easily one of the best ever posted. TNVC post more pics plz plz plz ETA Sticky this ftw 
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Posted: 12/28/2018 12:07:10 PM EDT
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Several PM'd where this was...
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Posted: 12/29/2018 3:20:47 AM EDT
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A D D
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Posted: 12/29/2018 10:01:53 PM EDT
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Was on Lake Buchanan recently and had a chance to look through someone’s telescopes with my TNVC L3 WP. Admittedly I know this is the adapter thread and I do NOT have an adapter, but here we are.
One of these is orion’s Nebula and the other is the andromeda galaxy. My iPhone X does a totally shit job of capturing what the human eye could easily perceive. After using NV to look through a telescope, I never want to do it another way!! 
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TX, USA
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Posted: 12/29/2018 10:24:07 PM EDT
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For anyone intrigued by NV astronomy, I would recommend just two accessories, a 3x magnifier (should have one anyways) and a hydrogen alpha (h-alpha) filter. Without exaggeration, I never leave these two behind whenever going somewhere dark. Main advantage to me of NV astronomy is that it allows for very wide fields of view.
The native 40 deg FOV of a PVS-14 shows the sky in a way that very few can perceive, save from the darkest locations. The 3x magnifiers that go for pretty cheap have good glass and allow for a nice sweet spot in terms of field of view. More detail in the sky is revealed and objects like star clusters and galaxies really pop out. An h-alpha filter (7 or 12nm wide, for most locations) allows for emission nebula to be seen, something that is essentially impossible with the naked eye, no matter how dark the observation site is. Amazing to see large glowing fluffy clouds of interstellar hydrogen just hanging in the sky overhead. |
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Posted: 3/2/2019 1:38:30 AM EDT
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New write up with our new filter adapter that works with our current AFOCAL PVS-14 Adapter. http://televue.com/notamnomen/#.XHoUkDeIYwB
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Posted: 3/2/2019 1:50:25 AM EDT
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Beautiful Horsehead Nebula using our PVS-14 Cell Phone Adapter from that article. Stunning work. Tube is a 4G full up INTENS tube.
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CO, USA
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Posted: 3/2/2019 2:39:28 PM EDT
[Last Edit: carlos87]
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I wonder what M57 / Ring Nebula would look like with the spinning wheel color PVS14 adapter. You can barely see color visually with 14 inch plus telescopes
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Posted: 3/7/2019 7:19:18 PM EDT
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Speaking of filters, this coming very soon!
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Posted: 4/17/2019 7:45:30 PM EDT
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New filters have arrived and will be up on our web site shortly!
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Posted: 4/17/2019 10:00:22 PM EDT
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As soon as I figure out an astronomy set up I’ll be jumping on one. Thanks for the advice today Vic about this stuff. I really want to take advantage of the dark skies we have in N.AZ but I literally know nothing about astronomy scopes.
Reminds me of when I first got into night vision. Definitely don’t want to repeat those relatively expensive first mistakes buying the wrong stuff. 
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Posted: 4/18/2019 1:51:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
New filters have arrived and will be up on our web site shortly! |
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Posted: 7/19/2019 11:08:01 AM EDT
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New filters are up on our web site.
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Posted: 9/9/2019 2:17:14 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/9/2019 11:12:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
New filters have arrived and will be up on our web site shortly! |
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Posted: 9/10/2019 6:24:21 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
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Parts of the North American/Pelican Nebula complex. All pics taken with a TNV-14 L3 WP Filmless.
A lot more to come, sorry been a bit busy.
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Posted: 9/10/2019 7:33:23 PM EDT
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Not sure if I should even ask, but where does someone learn about telescopes to put my NODs on? Is there an ARFcom version of Astronomy?
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Posted: 9/10/2019 9:47:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KPog:
Not sure if I should even ask, but where does someone learn about telescopes to put my NODs on? Is there an ARFcom version of Astronomy? |
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Posted: 9/10/2019 11:45:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By KPog:
Not sure if I should even ask, but where does someone learn about telescopes to put my NODs on? Is there an ARFcom version of Astronomy?
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Posted: 9/11/2019 5:47:08 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
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M27 with H -alpha filter TNV-14 WP Filmless
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Posted: 10/1/2019 9:47:30 PM EDT
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Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) TNV-14 L3 Filmless WP
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Posted: 10/2/2019 1:47:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TNVC:
Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888) TNV-14 L3 Filmless WP https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/19096/Crescent_Nebula_NGC_6888_JPG-1109580.jpg |
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Posted: 10/19/2019 2:21:20 PM EDT
[Last Edit: TNVC]
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Lagoon Nebula TNV-14 L3 White Phos Filmless
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