2010-04-03 Orion Nebula - 4th Attempt
Orion is setting too early in the evening now, and the weather has been bad, will have to wait until next year for longer / cleaner exposures.
I tossed together all of the the reasonable exposures taken this year to see what I could get out of it. The camera was not oriented the same way on the telescope on the 5 different nights so there are bands at the corners with different brightnesses, but there is a lot more detail than in the previous versions, including the Running Man nebula in the top left.
32 exposures, ranging from 30 seconds to 80 seconds each, 22:51 total exposure time. ISO 100 to 400, flat frames used. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
Canon T1i, Meade 10" SN-10-AT telescope, F4 1016mm.
2010-04-03 Orion Nebula - 4th Attempt
Orion is setting too early in the evening now, and the weather has been bad, will have to wait until next year for longer / cleaner exposures.
I tossed together all of the the reasonable exposures taken this year to see what I could get out of it. The camera was not oriented the same way on the telescope on the 5 different nights so there are bands at the corners with different brightnesses, but there is a lot more detail than in the previous versions, including the Running Man nebula in the top left.
32 exposures, ranging from 30 seconds to 80 seconds each, 22:51 total exposure time. ISO 100 to 400, flat frames used. Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
Canon T1i, Meade 10" SN-10-AT telescope, F4 1016mm.