M82 - 23rd april 2024

[Astronomist]

I had intended to have a go at the Owl Nebula this session, however rather embarassingly after half an hour's searching I was unable to find it in the eyepiece.🤣 

Instead I tried to improve on my previous attempt at M82. This is 800 x 400ms exposures, at 60% gain.

And here's a bonus pic of procyon and its spectacular diffraction spikes:

[PeterC65]

Planetary Nebulae are worth the effort of finding as they look very impressive with a big Newtonian. Here's one of my favourites, the Eskimo Nebula (NGC2392), observed in early March with an 8" Newtonian with x1.7 Barlow, x400 gain (50%), 77 x 15s frames.