An auspicious occasion

[Ags]

This week I changed from working full time to 80%, so no work for me today   Less pay of course, but more time. This meant last night was an Astronomy Night, and I managed to catch 12 minutes on M27 before the weather gods realized what was going on and quickly sent over some cloud. But at least I got to set up my equipment and do polar alignment, and I shot some calibration frames afterwards, so not a total loss. But 12 minutes of M27 gives a pretty bright image actually, I can harly imagine what 4 hours would give me!

[Vroobel]

12 minutes? That's really impressive! 😲

[Ags]

I think my Duo filter and GraXpert denoising did most of the work! But this is with an uncooled camera.

Edited June 7 by Ags

[Grump Martian]

Hi Ags. What instrument did you use?

I do like the picture.

Edited June 7 by Grump Martian
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[Ags]

Thanks. it was taken with my Hackstrograph v2 - an RC6 with an SCT 6.3 reducer, ASI485MC camera and a ZWO Duo filter. One minute subs, gain 200.

[Ags]

Well, we have clearer skies tonight, so I hope to get a couple of hours tonight.

[Vroobel]

🤞 😊

[Ags]

115 subs and counting...

[Ags]

After last night. I think I need many more hours to get the faint outser regions which show up on some extreme stretches.

[Ags]

I added another 90 minutes and can start to see some faint stuff coming through now.

I'll carry on adding to this as I am still seeing improvements but I will add a few more targets to the mix each night now - I don't want to spend all of Summer on one thing! So got 40 minutes on the Veil at the end of the session:

I'll try to do an hour on each every clear night. I need to get a bigger battery though...

[Vroobel]

12 minutes ago, Ags said:

I don't want to spend all of Summer on one thing!  

 

Don't give up! It's impressive, indeed, but make it brain-smashing! 😁

I think it would be my next target after the Crescent (when I finally finish it...) 🤔

 

Edited June 9 by Vroobel