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A good night but ..
Decided to move on from Orion, think I've done it to death. Last night was ok and I had a go at Thors Helmet (NGC 2359) as it was well positioned. Ran 104 exposures @ ISO 1600 for 30 secs ( 16 at 45secs) ) giving me nearly an hour of exposure on the 450D\Lunt102 f7 combo.
Couldn't see anything on the frames but pushing the processing hard revealed it with faint green swirls centred in the stacked image. Nothing like the detailed images I've seen posted.
So the question is just how much exposure is required for this one to get any real results ?
Descriptions of this object always call it 'bright and colourful' so I'm a little perplexed. If it requires a heap more exposure I'm going to have to radically modify my imaging regime in my LP'd zone.
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