December 18, 2020: clear skies at last

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Snapping M45 at the moment, will switch to M42 when it clears the trees

[maw lod qan]

We are going to be clear this evening as well.

Past few evenings the clouds kept me from looking at the Great Conjunction.

Hope you have a good successful night!👍

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

After getting just six subs on M42 with the Optolong L-eXtreme filter inserted, I decided to switch to the Horse-Head Nebula, because the L-eXtreme filter vuts too much of the reflection component of both M42 and the Running Man. Horse-Head and Flame Nebulae look promising, with inky black backgrounds even from my suburban back garden 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Here's the Optolong L-eXtreme in the Tele-Vue TRF-2008 0.8x reducer