Despite the visibility being forecast as poor all night, the local sky didn’t agree. I’m still in the exciting discovery phase of my relationship with the ASI533MC-Pro, and am enjoying the experimentation with the toys to hand. I’ll be posting raw (not stacked or processed) shots for the time-being as I don’t have the set up just yet. I quite like the lazy ‘natural’ look. Rest assured I’m taking multiple subs and multiple exposures so I can do computer work in the future.
Here are two shots, M42 with middle blown out (I have shorter subs for future merging), and M1.
M42: single 600s exposure, auto guided, gain 100, esprit 120 + flattener, uv/ir cut filter. Air temperature -2degC, camera cooled to -10degC
M1: single 300s exposure, gain 360.
With a field of view 0.9x0.9 degrees, and a whole sky of over 41000 square degrees, I need to get a move on if I want to start a cloudnine deep-sky survey!