A couple more form last night Modded 350D on Megrez 72...

[Psychobilly]

I started the night with the 1000D onthe megrez 72 and did some test firstlight images of M31 and M45 as neither of these are Ha Rich...and then used it on M42 so that I can show a comparison between a modded and un modded cameras can be shown.

I have been invited to give a chat to one of the local photographic clubs in a few weeks time about astrophotography - one of the memebers lives a few doors down from me and got chatting to one of the judges of their crimbo comp about this guy whos got an observatory in the garden (me) - the judge whos a good mate of mine happened to have my M45 and M33 images on his laptop so showed them to a few of the members the result is... he's volunteered me to give a talk on astrophotography :shock: :crybaby: ....

Anyway enough about that...

SO here a few more from last night nothing special and only rough processing until later on...

None of these have darks bias and flats in the stacks yet as they are just First looks...

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Some poor widefield and startrails to come soon

Billy...

[Deneb]

ooohh, envy !

[CELESCOPE]

Nice ones Peter , i like the Rosette best cracker , at last some images coming in , super clear night last night .

Rog

[Sam]

They look great Billy!

[Psychobilly]

I'd been faffing around changing over cameras etc removing and refitting the piggy back one changing lenses on it so by the time - all those things you really want to do to keep the mount in alignment.... i got round to these the guider was having to work a bit harder... also dewed up the filter on the nosepiece of the FFIII whe i stupidly decided to remove it rather tahn just swap the camera bodies over... this then gave a nice little droplet which proceed to work its way across the filter... hence the cropping...

I also had to keep re-focusing when i changed between the moded and un-modded cameras as there no "glsass" infront of the sensor in the modded one ... took a few fuzzy frames before i remebered that one...DOH...

Thats the trouble when its the first night out since 1-2 dec you want to do eveything...

Billy...

Tonight if its clear it will be the same camera on the mount all night... and some more experimentrs with startrails...

[MartinB]

That's the problem with imaging in the UK Billy, you have to remember everything afresh each time you image - more of a problem still for those of us without a permanent set up!

Looking very promising those images despite your problems.

[Psychobilly]

Despite what i said earlier i think i'll change camera mid session get more data for M31 and M45 with the 1000D before changing over to the 350D for more subs for Flame/HHN and Rossette...

Billy...

Just need soem SLeeeeeeepppppp.....out of practice at this insomnia lark....

[steppenwolf]

Excellent Rosette, Biily - glad you got out there.

[Psychobilly]

I'll add a few more hours to the Rossette tonight and maybe start on something else...I am not going to add to the HHN tonight will do an M42 comparison shot with the 350D using the same timings as i did with the 1000D before adding some deeper data...

BIlly...

[Les Tilly]

You have been Busy Good start to all the images just keep adding those subs. Cloudy over the water and raining so no imaging for a while looking at the weather for the week

Les

[Coco]

I'm on your '20' Billy :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Superb pics... Thanks for the bucket full of advise you pass on also..

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Guy