Greetings everyone,
After years of reading and watching youtube videos about astrophotography, I finally got hands on my first telescope last week. And of course I went straight for the beloved Orion Nebula. Being inexperienced and with poor visibility of the south, getting good polar alignment is frustrating . I couldn’t even get PHD2 to properly perform drift align, RA and DEC lines kept jumping either straight up or downwards.
After spending several nights outside trying to make the thing work, out of boredom I opened the old PHD1, calibrated and started guiding right after, and surprisingly it worked like a champ! I spent the rest of the night capturing as much as I can, and ended up with 125 subs at 25s ISO 800, 40 darks and 30 bias.
Being excited, I couldn’t resist the urge to immediately stack them up in DSS then stretch using photoshop. The result is not perfect as there certainly is room for improvement, but I’m happy with this and thought you guys might like it. Opinions and suggestions are more than welcome
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