What did you get up to imaging wise last night?

[PESKYWAABBIT]

It was an amazing night last night in the East of England and I was out imaging the M31, M33 and M42 in the few hours I had free. I still need to do some post processing so the images will have to wait!

Curious what targets you guys were imaging and if you had some photos to share?

At work at the moment,but I like having something to look forward to or look at end of the day

[furrysocks2]

I'll kick you off with my retry on M33 - guidescope in a 4". Such a labour that I gave up with no other targets.

https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/279039-the-eq3-dso-challenge/?page=42&tab=comments#comment-3322368

[parallaxerr]

It was clear as a bell here in South Wales too. I tried out my new setup for the first time on the Horsehead & flame. Only 7x600 Ha lights and 3x600 darks, no flats yet. A very quick run through StarTools...

 

[Starlight 1]

Well mount is still  not working as I like,   So a play in M45 HA /oll/s2  4 of each at 300s and 2 off them went in the bin. 

[Filroden]

I haven't processed the subs yet but I managed short runs to add two new panels covering the Heart Nebula to add to one I already have on the Soul. It was nice to see a clear night for once in the year!

[Davey-T]

Did a couple of hours on NGC891, would have been more if I'd remembered to click the autosave button 

Not particularly clear but not too bad.

Dave

[PhotoGav]

I was at an event in London yesterday evening, rather frustrated knowing that the forecast was clear. However, remote control saved the night as I stopped at Heston Services at about 10pm on my way home to dial in to my observatory and start an imaging run on IC342. Thankfully it all went smoothly and didn’t involve the line “Heston, we have a problem”! Unfortunately the run was cut short at about 2:15am as high hazy cloud flooded in from the West. I still have quite a bit of data to collect before any image is forth coming. 

[alacant]

Alicante: Haze from the Easterlies so nothing artistic possible. Spent an hour trying to solve the elongated-star-maybe-make-certain-everything-is-tight-and-try-again differential flex advice for my 150-f8. Must stop telling myself everything is as tight as it could be... Looking reasonable for a change. Really exciting cr2 frames of ngc7790 to enlarge. Bet you can't wait!

[Handy_Andy]

Not proper imaging, more of a test but I got my first crack at the Veil nebula. Only 2 600s frames but hoping for much more tonight

[MartinB]

Looks like it was a productive night.  I was homed in on the Iris.  Nice at first, then lost about 90mins because I forgot to restart the imaging after a refocus, started to get very murky towards midnight so packed in.  Good evening with binos though

[tooth_dr]

Seems like everyone had a productive night. Stayed clear until 3am but haze from about 1am. 

Screen shot of single 600s sub of IC1396:

 

 

[AKB]

No dew heater on my 8" Quattro, so only got 14 x 5 minute subs on the Cocoon with a QHY8L.  Just a quick process to take stock of the data...

[mcrowle]

It was the first practically moonless clear night in Cornwall for weeks (or months, more-like)! I imaged the Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) in Auriga with a Sky-Watcher 80mm ED, piggy backed on a Celestron C8 for manual guiding. Next up was Orion's Sword and Belt, plus the central part of Barnard's Loop, with a 100mm lens piggybacked for tracking (no guiding) on the C8. I'm planning to do the processing tonight, if it's not clear - otherwise later in the weekend.

Regards, Mike.

[adam_sage]

I finally got my very first pictures of Orion.....i only started in March last year with only a handful of clear nights to work with and as we all know its been nothing but cloud since september pretty much lol so here they are :-) (I'm a complete novice with processing)

Orion001.tif

Orion stacked 02.tif

[adam_sage]

2 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Seems like everyone had a productive night. Stayed clear until 3am but haze from about 1am. 

Screen shot of single 600s sub of IC1396:

 

 

what exposure setting did you use for this picture? 

[tooth_dr]

17 minutes ago, adam_sage said:

what exposure setting did you use for this picture? 

Hi Adam.

It was taken with a modified Canon 1000d (IR filter removed), through an ED80 FL=522mm F6.5, 600s at ISO1600, with a CLS light pollution filter.

[r3i]

Makes a refreshing change to have a clear night coinciding with a new moon.  I've been doing a fair bit of NB imaging recently, so decided on a change and had a go at M74.  Got 3 hours of luminance with my 8" RC / ASI1600MM-C.  Image scale at 0.49" is ridiculously optimistic for NE England but fancied a punt.  Only done rough and ready processing so far in PS just to see how it looked.  Supposed to be clear again for the next couple of nights so hoping to get some RGB to colour it up:

[Taff]

One if my images' from a cold night is m33 at prime focus with a canon 500D  and a 8'' F5 reflector with a CLS clip filter.35 x 1 mins frames' 35 x 1 mins darks' 35 bias' used deep sky stacker and photshop.Mark

[geordie85]

I was at work so started later than I'd have liked. Used the night to get some o111 and s11 data to go with my Ha data I'd collected about a week or so previously other soul nebula.

Here's the end result so far. Still needs more data.

[MarsG76]

I was still  capturing my horse head closeup data... didn't process the data yet as I want to get more photons.  

[AKB]

I had a complete disaster with the Elephant's Trunk... bad focus and something else bad going on too... there were clouds, but it also dropped below freezing – maybe frost or dew?

12 x 300s, Quattro 8", QHY8L (OSC), guided & dithered with Nebulosity/PHD2.

[martin_h]

Well I imaged mostly cloud last night.

[DaveS]

Got another hour of L on Deer Lick and Stephan's Quintet before they got too low over my house, then moved on the the Crab and got 3x50 blocks of RGB that I'll combine with some NB from last year.