Hi all, I cant recall ever such a prolonged period of trully impossible weather... not even gettiing to dodge clouds, it's like one big solid. I've literally had just 3 possible nights of imaging in the last two months and with new gear I've been struggling to make use of them rather than just overcome gear hurdles.
Last Sat night I did get some hours of clear to try the Riccardi 0.75x redcuer on my APM130/6 scope, and managed a few on the Tarantula and then swapped to our subject here the Prawn.
The Tarantula stuff was well guided but i muffed the framing...the Prawn, not sure why, possibly lots of high cloud, but guiding went to S%$t and only manage to keep 26 of the 60 exposures (4min each) so around 1h 44m.
The Riccardi reducer seems to work ok, but clearly i have a little tilt and imperfect spacing...but who has sky time to sort such out I ask you
Anyway, I willadd to this, but who knows when that will happen, so for now I present to you my undercooked "raw" Prawn. Processed in APP and photoshop only.
Full Resolution via link below
https://astrob.in/ps574b/0/