A clear night, so got first light with the 2600MC-DUO I picked up in December. M42/Orion was up early and within my field, so seemed like a good target. Hope to get 100 120s light frames before the fog comes in.
Had two hours before the dutch clouds came back so I tried the Horsehead Nebula, IC 434.
Setup contains ASI533mm Pro, RedCat 51, HEQ5 Pro, ASI120mm S (for auto-guiding) and ASIAir ✨
🔭 Clear skies everyone!
Lights (1h, 54min): 10 x L, 10 x R, 10 x G, 8 x B of 180 seconds each,
Dark x 20,
Master bias frame
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The Pleiades (also known as Messier 45 or The Seven Sisters) is an open star cluster. At about 444 light-years from Earth, it is the nearest Messier object.
Taken with a Nikon D7500 (modified) and a #Redcat51.
499 x 45 second images
Processed with #Pixinsight.
This weekend, the skies above Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) decided to give us a clear night during this rainy spring. Since I was in the city, II used my L-eXtreme narrowband filter hence the red colour you see. First time with this filter, and am happy with my progress towards my Orion Nebula summer project.
I hope you enjoy, and have a wonderful day!
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