North American and Pacman Nebulas from this week

[jonathancd]

Hello,

first deep sky images for months (since May) this week. One first (the Pacman) and a second go at the North American.

I have tried to use more subs and longer exposure time than usual (about 1hr 30mins). Pacman was 90 second subs with my 300d using the Equinox 80 and the North American 2 minute subs with a 55-200mm sigma zoom @200mm. Both were stacked in deep sky stacker and processed in photoshop 6, both a bit cropped too.

Exposures are relative short as they were unguided with my Vixen Sphinx and sadly I do not have Deneb's awesome polar alignment skills.

Taken as always from lovely light polluted north east London.

thanks for looking

Jonathan

Hutech Modded 300D

Equinox 80

Vixen Sphinx SXW