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Old 20-11-2018, 11:07 AM
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M4x

A couple of well known objects which I haven't really imaged before (I did a short unguided capture of M42 when just starting out but have never attempted M45 before).

Last weekend I finally managed to set up the MN190 that I purchased from Glen back in October. As expected it wouldn't quite come to focus with the DSLR (and I didn't want to swap spacer plates via torchlight) so I observed a few objects with the Delos 14mm and late in the night pressed it into service as a guidescope () whilst grabbing a couple of quick images through the AT 65mm EDQ.

Processing on these definitely falls into the quick-and-dirty category as I've recently moved house and haven't even set up the big monitor yet.

Roughly 30 minutes on M42/43 and 45 minutes on M45 with the modded Pentax K-5iis.

I had some weird, stray-light artefacts on the Orion image which I can only guess might have been from Alnitak (given their radial nature) but it seems strange given how far out of the field it was. I cropped some of it out and covered up the rest as best as I could.
Anyway I hope you like them for what they are.

Bigger versions:

https://www.astrobin.com/full/377122/0/
https://www.astrobin.com/full/377533/0/
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