Finally got my grubby mitts on a CCD camera - and the 'old but new-to-me' atik 16HR is giving some good results.
Teaching myself basic narrowband imaging/processing techniques.
NGC6888 Crescent ne bu.tif
Trying out photography with lenses instead, although the night sky theme is still very central. Some with tripod, some with piggyback on the EQ5 - mainly using a Nikon D3100 and 55-200mm Nikkor.
You wouldn't see this amount of colour or detail without a camera, but the brightest area of the nebula along with the central stars can be viewed through a scope, and as usual the bigger the aperture the better it will pick up the fainter objects.
Sorry only just realised the question was here - that bright star is the first on the left of the 3 in Orion's belt - called Alnitak. thnx for the comments btw :)
Actually got rained on twice, a gap appeared in clouds and i set up and soon as i had aligned it rained on everything :( i was stupid enough to do it again later the same night with similar results - doh!
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