m43 and the Trapezium

[jjjnettie]

Cropped from the larger M42 I'm working on.
6 hrs of data so far. :)
canon 550d, ed80 and heq5pro mount
dss and cs3

[mill]

If you can adjust focus a tiny bit more and take some 5 Second exposures and blend them in you will have the perfect trap, but there are already 4 stars visible so it is pretty well focused.
Here is the 10 Second trap with my QHY9 focused by hand (i know you want a ccd cam :P ).

[jjjnettie]

I used 30 sec subs for the trap for this one.
Next clear night I'll do some 5 sec ones as well. :D thanks for the tip.
It's been great fun working on this. Itching to add more to it.

[mill]

Same here but it looks like the clouds strike again for the rest of the week :(