January 9, 2021: 47 minutes of Horse-Head and Flame

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just managed to capture a tad over 47 minutes on the Horse-Head and Flame Nebulae, using my APM 80 mm F/6, TRF-2008 0.8x reducer and modded Canon EOS 550D on my EQ3-2 mount. Stacked and stretched in APP, with a little tweak in GIMP gives me this

Not bad for such a short session in suburban conditions. I added these data to an earlier load, reaching a total of 7 h 37 min 27s, about half of which was captured using an Optolog L-eXtreme filter. This gives me a clearly better result.

Still need to tame Alnitak (and grab much more data from a properly dark site)