IC1318 and friends

You know some nights when everything goes right, and all you really

remember is the imaging? Yes? Then you also know the soul destroying,

life sucking nights where a long list of things that worked just fine

last time decide to conspire against you. Last night was the latter

option. I wont bore you with details, but I nearly packed up at 11pm and

went to bed.

 

Thankfully (almost) all the problems went away after I rebooted my

laptop, so I managed to get everything working, left it running for ~6

hours, and still went to bed smile.gif

 

Seeing wasnt great, a fair amount of vapour in the air, lit up by the

moon, but it was quite still in the sky, breeze free on the ground...

and bl__dy cold! Not "winter" cold, but autumn has definitely arrived

with the fresh mornings leaving everything covered in dew.

 

Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD

OTA: Borg 77EDII @ f/4.3

Guiding: SW ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD

Imaging: Starlight Xpress M25C + MaximDL, 24×900s, Astronomik 13nm Ha

(101 bias, 101 flats)

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2

 

Note: the lower right corner in the mid sized image shows some odd

curvature, which I pretty convinced is due to me overtightening the

front tube ring on the Borg and pinching the objective. Next time out, I

will have to keep an eye on that.

Done