NGC 7380 – The Wizard : two hours with OSC

[AKB]

Saturday, August 28, 21:30 - 23:30.  Moon rising and high cloud, with not very good transparency.  I have a new mount which needs a meridian flip (Horror!  not used to this) so I stopped before the meridian.  I still need to tweak this setup to fix what is either tilt or wrong back-focus, or both.  So this is a crop.  Nevertheless, not too bad, I hope, for just two hours.

• Esprit 120ED
• Mesu e200 mount, guided with RMS < 0.5"
• ASI 294MC OSC with Altair Astro Quad-band filter
• 24 x 5 min subs
• PixInsight / StarNet

Thoughts on ways to improve are much welcomed.  Thanks.

Tony

 

Edited August 29, 2021 by AKB

[simmo39]

Nice, another one of my fav targets.

[AKB]

Just for fun, I tried a Hubble-like palette...

This seems to work quite well even though it's not really narrow band.

 

[Sterrenland]

Nice capture...having an 80ED I do like the extra reach of the 120.  Think I'll have to start saving. Great detail in the nebulosity.

[AKB]

14 minutes ago, Sterrenland said:

Nice capture...having an 80ED I do like the extra reach of the 120.  Think I'll have to start saving. Great detail in the nebulosity.

Thanks.  Yes, the 120 is very nice… you’ll need a bigger mount too!