A very quick M27 Dumbbell

[Padraic M]

A very quick capture of M27 to test my C8 SCT /0.63ff with OAG set up, focusing and guiding. Was close to 2am by the time I was ready to image so time was limited. I continued to have focusing, guiding and platesolving issues so time ran out for my LRGB captures. It was practically bright by the time I captured Blue so there's no real point in spending more time on this image, so here it is!

This is:

3x150s Red
4x150s Green
3x150s Blue
Total of 25 minutes. I also got 12.5 mins of luminance but it completely overwhelms the colour. I haven't used it.
No calibration of any sort, not even darks.

PHD2 guiding (OAG) drops out every few minutes with 'low star mass'. Advice on the forums suggests increasing the size of the PHD2 search box. More likely I need to collimate the scope as I have nice boomerang stars in the OAG.

Celestron C8, ASI1600mm Pro, Baader RGB filters, ASI290mm Mini guide with OVL OAG. HEQ5 Pro belt mod.

[peter shah]

Thats a lot of image for such a short amount of integration time....great work

[Padraic M]

Thanks Peter - the joys of dark skies!!