Wow! There is some incredibly faint stuff - a thick streak heading off radially toward four o'clock - which is visible in the GALEX image and therefore real.
Wow! There is some incredibly faint stuff - a thick streak heading off radially toward four o'clock - which is visible in the GALEX image and therefore real.
It's well defined in your image Mike, right on the edge of the frame. Seeing's good tonight. Done 4 more subs so far. There is a bit of high altitude thin clouds but it's not too bad. The FWHM is better than yesterday at the same time. Will see how the night progress. Supposed to fog up later on. I'll grab what I can. Tomorrow night should still be ok. Then the Saturday heatwave will be upon us with the jetstream back to boot. Fun's over then
Conditions have been less than ideal last night and tonight is heading the same way. Here's a shot of my rig under "the stars" if you can spot any.
Got nearly 30h now, smoother but no improvement in the faint stuff. It's going to be hard to process. But I have so many subs now maybe I can pick the ones with the best contrast.
I think imaging under light pollution, no matter what, has its limitations. You can't go fainter than your sky glow.
Coming along very very nicely Marc. Glad to see you've been stubborn and squeezing every available photon!
Tonight I'll be passing the 200x600s mark so I'd better get something for it on the other end or sh|t's gonna get hectic... Will have to be very creative with processing. I might even use PixInsight.
Didn't realise the situation was getting so serious!!
Probably just caffeine talking...
Last night was a bit better with transparency. Seeing was also still ok but gone now and it's getting hot. Bit of clouds out west after 2:00am so I slew to M42 to finish the night until sunrise. Certainly got a lot more to show for it in the 3h I did than the 37h on the Helix. Was starting to wonder If I had forgotten to take the lid off the scope.
100 hours 
nah... not gonna happen. Would be a cool shot though. 
... and Louie is imaging as well and keeps texting me... that's about it I think. 
