Not the most successful evening...

[Helen]

Its not particularly clear, but I thought it was worth a go to see if I could sort the problems out from a couple of nights ago.

The good news is that I've managed to get focus with both my scopes for both main camera and guider

The scope seems to cope with reasonable times unguided on the ZS66 at its native focal length. SO here's my first ever M45 - not very well framed, not much nebulosity, and struggling with dew I think! (oh and only a quick and dirty process on the obs PC which currently has a poor screen and no Noel's tools) But apart from that....

SXVFH9 - ZS66 - on NS8, but unguided (couldn't get a guidestar at f10 on the C8) 15x60s, stacked with 2xdrizzle in DSS and a bit of processing in elements

(click to enlarge)

I've also got an M27, an hour's data, but the stars are odd shaped - no idea what went wrong (I was in having tea at the time ) but I don't think its a guiding problem as the stars were odd shapes even on short exposures

Never mind, all part of the learning!

Helen

[LostNSpace]

Hi Helen!!!!

You might be surprised how much nebulosity you have picked up in your image.......You cant always tell on B/W images but id say, looking between the colour images and your image that you have a cracking capture there, even though not all of it is in shot.

Mark

[legion48]

Nice one Helen. It was pretty dewy here to tonight.

[Helen]

Thanks for the encouragement! and nice to know there's company out there I must admit I'm calling it a night now - seeing has deteriorated, and my warm bed is calling.

I'll give the data another going over tomorrow.

Goodnight!

Helen

[LostNSpace]

I dont blame you, it is kind of late now.....But i suppose late nights come with the territory for us budding amateur astronomers

Sleep tight

Mark

[lunator]

Helen

It is a good pic.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with the end result once you have done a 'full' processing routine

Cheers

Ian

[RichieJarvis]

Hi Helen,

I agree with the others - theres a fair amount of luminosity there - with a bit of DDP and stretching, it'll come out beautifully.

I look forward to seeing the final

Cheers,

Richie

[Psychobilly]

calling it a night you have missed the best bit....

Clearign nicely further west and its heading your way....

I'm spending an hour on M45 at the moment...

Billy...

[RichieJarvis]

I am calling it a night as well very very shortly....

I've gotta be awake tomorrow ya know! :mrgreen:

[steppenwolf]

Hardly a poor image that, Helen - lots of nebulosity! Pleased you got the focus issues resolved.

[CELESCOPE]

looks good to me Helen well done , if your sky was like mine ,looked clear .but major problems up there ,at least in my area , 4 hours i wasted , but your image is fine , so no worries ,just need a better sky

Rog

[trudie]

I think it was a very successful evening, its a good result, can't say I'm looking forward to the teething troubles you have been going through.

Keep up the good work.

GIRL POWER EH !!!!

Trudie