Sunday 31 March 2019

Last Orion Nebula for the 2018-19 season

This will be my last image of the Orion Nebula for the 2018-19 season, it's now disappearing behind nearby houses and every night it gets a little further west and the sky gets a little brighter. I decided to concentrate on this one object over a period of 5 nights rather than a single night and it has paid off in getting a much smoother image.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher CG4 motorised with modified controller for guiding.
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C
Guide software: PHD2 


166 x 2 min plus 41 x 1 min exposures. 

Stacked in DSS and finished in PS Elements.