[dan_iana (Daniel and Iana)]

As it was our first ever attempt to capture a DSO, we only captured a handful of data (25x120sec exposures at iso800 with an old Canon 450d, complemented with only 6 matching dark frames so we could familiarise ourselves with how to process DSOs.

Image taken on 4 Jan 2019, 10km from Sydney CBD (AUS) during a new moon. Although, meteoblue rated the "seeing" as pretty poor that night.

We could have captured up-to 5min subs with how the tracking was going but it was getting pretty late. Lots to learn with respect to acquisition and processing techniques but not a bad way to syart.

Yesterday we purchased a ZWO asi 1600mm pro with their new narrowband and plan to pickup the filter wheel from bintel on Saturday. Exciting times lay ahead.

Equipment:Autoguiding with 50mm orion guide scope and zwo asi290mc camera, Imaged through a celestron c8 edgeHD with. 7x focal reducer on a skywatcher azeq6 mount, Primary camera was an old Canon 450d with an astronomik cls filter to suppress the city lights.