M44 becoming a favotite

[oldpink]

for some reason I always seem to get it in some clear sky when the cloud is about
happened again yesterday when the weather said "Don't bother" but somehow it stayed clear for almost 2 hrs
so I ran a load of Subs as tests between 10s to 180s all at 800 ISO and took appropriate Dark's and Bias shots to match

first picture is the lower exposure set using 20, 30 & 60s exposures 60 in total with Dark's & Bias added
second is the longer exposures using 60, 90 & 180 second with the dark's & bias

no polar align or any star alignment, I used Jupiter earlier on to fine tune my mount
not the best but it worked

[wxsatuser]

They are very dark.......would have thought there would be more in the longer exposures.

[oldpink]

I set the background very dark to take out a bit of noise