Nice clear nights with slightly more than a first quarter moon, and its a Saturday night and I was feeling pretty good, so I thought I'd image a few things that I havent yet.
The evening started out with the moon. Using the webcam and a 3X barlow on the 6", I managed to capture these:
Not a bad night, seeing wise. Very little turbulence and the moon, this time of year is not very high in the sky.
After capturing these, I went over to the Iris Nebula inCepheus. Although I was able to capture enough subs, the finished product is not great, partly because the moon was still above the horizon. This is what I ended up with
From there, I recharged the laptop and went to the Bubble Nebula in Casseopia. This one came out pretty good actually, especially for my light polluted sky. By now, the moon had set.
I let this run for 50 2 min frames and went to bed. Set the alarm for 2 hours, got up and imaged Jupiter. It came out so bad, that I'd be embarassed to post it. From there, I took in a couple big galaxies. The first being M33. Trouble is, the battery in my mount was dying, so it didnt track well. I shot 30 subs, but only 5 were useable. This is what it looked like
Then I thought I'd shoot the granddaddy of them all - Andromeda. Of course, its so big I cant fit it in the field of view of the telescope. I got the central part.
>Total imaging time for everything you see here? About 9 hours.
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