Congratulations on the turnup for your public night. A fantastic effort.
I've loved watching the Summer Constellations rising in the mornings, (the times that I've actually been up at that time and there hasn't been fog.
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Liz, have you thought of taking multiple images and stacking them? Set your camera up as usual, and take 20 or 30 or more shots then run them through Deep Sky Stacker. You'll lose a lot of the noise and it would bring out the nebulosity and colour of M42. You might even get Barnards Loop into the picture.
You're images are gorgeous and if you can make them even more beautiful it would be worth it.
Would you try it, just once for me?
Please.
