|
m42 in infra red light
With the moon waxing, last night I put in my infra red pass filter (bought from Ebay for a few bucks). It passes IR light from about 800nm and longer, to which my modded camera can "see" It has clear AR coated glass over the sensor, not a modded IR cut filter. What you see here is just IR light. Theres a lot more stars shining from the nebula that would otherwise be dimmed in visible light by the dust of the nebula.
Its 2x5 mins ISO 1600 masked with 3x2 mins ISO200 for the core. Unfortunately, the rotten seabreeze wouldnt die down, buffeting the scope and making for some slight trailing. I envy those in fully closed in observatories, with just a hole big enough for the scope to look through.
Notice the 2 IR blobs at top slightly to the left, I wonder what they are?
Scott
|