1st clear night

[Stu Wilson]

Tonight was the 1st clear night for a long time but nothing seemed to go to plan.

Took forever to get polar alignment and even then it wasn't brilliant.

Managed a few of M42 but don't think my focus was brilliant either.

I took around 60 x 60 second subs and they were not the best.

After chucking most of them heres 4 stacked with darks and bias frames.

Like I say not the best but better than clouds......

Clear skies

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[Craney]

Wow, that's impressive.  

Was this using a your DSLR or the QHY8L   ??  

[Ouroboros]

That's lovely.  Amazing for only 4 minutes - if I understand your post correctly. Were the other subs so bad? 

[Stu Wilson]

7 hours ago, Craney said:

Wow, that's impressive.  

Was this using a your DSLR or the QHY8L   ??  

QHY8L don't very often use the DSLR

[Stu Wilson]

9 minutes ago, Ouroboros said:

That's lovely.  Amazing for only 4 minutes - if I understand your post correctly. Were the other subs so bad? 

I was experimenting with different exposure times as M42 is pretty bright and easy to mess up. So with everything else going wrong I had a mixture of frames with poor data and quite a few that were a total mess.