Last night was a fantastic night. 9/10 seeing and 10/10 trans, but very windy.
I took the opportunity of great skies to do a bit of experimenting. Gotta try new things or we go stale!
I visited some of my old favourites, but imaged differently for a change, rather than just imaging the same things the same way over and over.
For my first attempt at something new, I imaged with the Toucam imaging program switched to Monochrome.
Then, back to colour, the Second test was to image Keyhole Nebula without a Focal Reducer. A slightly closer look.
Thirdly, I left the Focal Reducer out and 2x Barlowed for an extreme close up of the Keyhole Nebula. Hmmmm, not a great Barlow!!!!
And the forth attempt was even longer exposure of Orion Nebula than I have taken before, just to see how far I can push.
I hope you enjoy my trials at something different
1. Carina B&W
2. Carina B&W
3. Keyhole up close
4. Keyhole 'In ya face'
5. Orion Neb at the longest I have imaged it. (12 x
3 mins)