[h0ughy (David)]

Lession 2 from the doghouse – IC2944

IC2944 – well I now see what a challenge I have from my skies – light pollution kills – as to other fundamental mistakes in the doghouse. Its only 2 odd hours worth of data but the seeing was atrocious and for some reason I focussed in the middle but out of focus at all edges? Go figure? But here is the kicker – I located and took a test shot at iso1600 – but then I forgot to change it back (but I did take raws LOL so no stacked jpegs LOL) I did not realise how bright/dim this object is as I have never before imaged it. I have a WO field flattener/reducer that I might give a go in the image train to work out the kinks. Thought things were going to well when I warm started and found it straight off. Now I have taken this next time I will better position it, lock in iso 400 and do at least 4 hours worth. I must make a flight manual check list for each session to tick off the completed tasks be fore I set to start the run. It’s a horrible image but here it is: