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M46 and ngc2438
I thought I'd catch up on a couple of lost opportunities the other night. One was M46 and another ngc2438 from the MOC the other month (two birds with one stone). Plus I was impressed with Scott's shots, so I wanted to try it myself.
So with a brief parting of the clouds on the 7th of Feb I took camera, mount and scope in hand and gave it a go.
Canon 300D (unmodded) focused with DSLR Focus, Orion 80ED, Autoguided with K3ccdtools V2 and ToUcam on Carton 60mm f/7 refractor, autoguiding interface and automatic capture with Star-mate, on Losmandy G11,
ISO800, 8X2min, dark calibrated, aligned and combined in ImagesPlus.Cropped then levels and curves using adjustment layers in PS CS. I've probably taken the black point a bit to far, but I liked the colour of the PN.
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