Orion Nebula 08/01/19

[Les Ewan]

Great evening's viewing no dewing due to the low humidity and light breeze,not too cold either with the temperature hovering around zero. A bit of patchy cloud about but Orion was mainly free for long periods.

I took several images of the Flame Nebula and even managed to bring out the Horse Head for the first time, but not well enough to submit. I use a Canon 1100D attached to my 300mm f 4.9 Newt on a EQ6R.

The system works quite well with the Flame but as usual attention turned to our old friend The Great Nebula.

The image was taken at 23:30 on the 8th.Exposure time was 60 seconds at 1600ISO. The image was a bit flat so gave it a bit of contrast using Faststone, apart from that the image (which is RAW) was unprocessed.