[kosborn (Kevin)]

It seems like the only time over the last few months there have been cloudless nights, the moon has been full (at least in my part of the world). The ASI2600 that I ordered several months ago has finally arrived, coinciding with no moon and no cloud last night. This is less than 2 hours of M42 taken low in the east with poor seeing and no calibration frames. This was an HDR composition of 20 second and 120 second exposures at f/5.5 with no noise reduction and the only post processing some adjustment to colour saturation and contrast. I'll be taking another couple of hours of integration when I can to better bring out the background dust. I'm thinking I'm going to enjoy this camera!

Kevin