M42 qhy8 ed80

[kinetic]

A quick set from tonight. No guiding, homemade GEM/ worm gear.
Clipped a bit in the black, stars saturated, suburban Adelaide.

Steve

[TimberLand]

Nice round stars. There should be a new class of imaging on home made mounts. Guiding will be the next challenge, but doable and I imagine the money you have saved on the mount has gone into the camera.

ATM lives on, maybe only a small group though.

Justin

[kinetic]

Thanks Justin,
I agree with your sentiments re ATM.
Here is a Lum version cropped .
Stars were slightly elongated E-W due to PE.
only 25 good frames out of about 50.
Could have gone for another good hour, but my back locked up
on me! :( Maybe tonight.

Steve

[Ross G]

Nice looking photo Steve.

I like the colour.

Ross.