Clear last night - M31, M33, NGC1499 ++

[fwm891]

Just a few images from last night....

[Interested]

Some nice images there Francis!

I especially like the N. America - a massive FOV which puts the whole nebula in context to its surrounding space!

Well done

Pete

[sologuitarist61]

What a great collection of images from one session! Brilliant - well done

[Gina]

Lovely

[Dipper]

Wow, lovely bit of collection for just one night.

[JamesF]

You did well there, Francis. I gave up at about 2am because the cloud was making a mess of everything. Did it get clearer later, or were you a busy bunny from the moment the sun set?

James

[fwm891]

Thanks All for the comments.

James, I did a PA while Polaris was visible against a pale sky (that way I can see the reticule patterns on my Neq3 without a torch).

Set-up the camera balance and once it was dark just selected a target and set the camera going.

I packed in around 12:30 then downloaded images to my hard drive as my wife needed to be at the station early today. Otherwise I would have probably been out all night.

All the images are cropped down.

[Chris]

A very productive night! I also really like the North America nebula, really nice collection for one night:)

[Quatermass]

Great set of images, if we were fishing that would be a nice net full

[JamesF]

James, I did a PA while Polaris was visible against a pale sky (that way I can see the reticule patterns on my Neq3 without a torch).

Set-up the camera balance and once it was dark just selected a target and set the camera going.

I packed in around 12:30 then downloaded images to my hard drive as my wife needed to be at the station early today. Otherwise I would have probably been out all night.

You did well to get all that done in that time. I was getting some shots of M31, but around 1:30am it started to cloud over quite heavily and I wasn't getting very much of use after that. By 2am everything had gone. I assume it must have cleared up at some point later though because I woke up to bright sunshine this morning.

James

[fwm891]

Because I'm using fairly short subs (2 min) I'm not doing a drift align or anything to delay things, it means I can just get on and image. I just do a live view check on focus before each set of images, I set a 10 sec delay between exposures that way if its at all dewey I can wipe the lens between each frame or just periodically.

I'm shooting with a standard camera so I'm not having to repeat things for filters (not even using an LP filter) although I have a UHC-S that I might try.

I need to order an adapter so I can fit Nikon lenses to my modified Canon 450D and bring out the reds a little more although the Nikon is doing quite a good job.

I'm really liking these Devon skies!