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M17 Swan ( Omega) Nebula
My image of M17 Swan Nebula captured on Tuesday night in Sydney
Conditions were suppose to be great but the first 50% of my subs where below par, stars not sharp and lots of noise in the raw files
I salvaged the last 50% of the 2 minute subs which were slightly better as they were captured from 40 degrees to around 70 degrees Alt
My guiding was poor and dithering was knocking the mount around a fair bit , it never really settled back to stable guiding
There was low lying cold moist air hanging around from about 10.30pm onwards and it got worse later in the night . After M17 , I tried to image Jupiter around midnight and couldn’t even focus properly it was just a fuzz ball . So shutdown and went to bed. I image from about 20m above river level at the bottom of a hill in my suburb , not the greatest location for astrophotography but conditions were poor at least from my location
6” f6 newt and HEQ5 mount
32 x 2 minute subs
25 x darks
ISO 800
Canon 600D unmodded
BYEOS
PHD2
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools
Thanks for looking and comments welcome!!
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