Orions Sword Fighting against the Full Moon

[Beyond_Vision]

As a bit of practice with my autoguiding setup I decided to image Orions Sword with my Canon 400D on a 80mm APO fitted with a 0.8x focal reducer . The moon was washing everything out but I managed to image the running man despite the moon trying its best to hide it.

Exposure time was 503 seconds at ISO400.

Edited in CS with NC Tools.

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Tried to loose some of the Moon glow but end up loosing some of the running man.

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[CELESCOPE]

Got it a bit better BV, managed to hold the running man

Rog

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[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Lovely BV. Can't wait 'till you get a go without the moon.

Kaptain Klevtsov

[barkis]

What a wonderful result considering how the moonlight must have been very invasive. As KK said, the prospects are very promising when old Selene is out of the sky.

M42 is beautifully imaged with lots of nebulosity visible.

Ron.

[cygnusx1]

9 minutes exposure with full :moon:, :shock:

Excellent result!

[MartinB]

That's amazing. I'm very impressed you managed to show up the running man. Superb result

[MikeD]

A top result under the conditions, looking forward to a revisit under darker skies.

Mike.

[lunator]

BV

well done

good pic, fantastic to get this with the moon so bright.

The moon was so bright I was having difficulty star hopping

Cheers

Ian

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for all the comments and also thanks and happy birthday to Rog for re-processing the picture.

Regards,

Kevin

[robindurant]

Hi BV

This is the one I am going to try next with my new 80mm set up. You said 9 mins , how many subs in that time ?

Robin

[legion48]

Very impressive, BV.

[Beyond_Vision]

Hi BV

This is the one I am going to try next with my new 80mm set up. You said 9 mins , how many subs in that time ?

Robin

Single exposure of 9 mins

Regards,

Kevin

[themos]

What is "the running man", may I ask?

[Kai]

If you look in the top middle of the image Rog reprocessed there are 3 bright stars.

If you look closely there is a nebula there and if you look even closer you can make out the dark shape of a man running.........Running Man

[themos]

thanks!

By the way, I submitted the image to astrometry and it came back with this, I hope you can see it, it's clickable:

[Beyond_Vision]

Thanks for that Themos, the 'Running Man' is NGC1977.

Regards

Kevin

[themos]

Yes, I see that now. Kevin, I couldn't resist throwing your "Milky Way Thru Deneb at Kielder Autumn Star Party 2007.jpeg" to astrometry. It is is such a beautiful image that I tried annotating it by hand myself. Anyway, here's the astrometry result