Gear challenges and weather have made it hard to get anywhere with astrophotography lately. Last night was an unexpected clear one in SE Qld though, and after bumbling around I finally started to get the gear singing.
This is my first decent outing with the FSQ. I ended up on this field after looking for "something faint and red" in Starry Night that I hadn't done before. After moving around to get what I felt was at least half decent composition and getting the imaging run underway discovered later there don't seem to be too many images around this area (at least that I could find). An old image from Marco Lorenzi was about it.
Anyway, the Ha seemed good enough to warrant trying to steal some moon aflicted RGB. One of my cardinal rules broken enjoying a quite Easter afternoon - have processed during the daytime with light streaming in the windows
Ha and HaRGB renditions shown.
FSQ106ED @ F5/QHY9 guided with 50mm finder/SSAG/NEQ6
Ha is 4 x 5min + 11 x 15min = 185mins total
RGB 4x5mins each unbinned
Higher res zoomable versions available here even though there isn't a lot more to see TBH.
(HaRGB courtesy of the PI HaRVB-AIP script for PI, version 1.0.5 - impressive stuff I thought)
Go easy on me - I've almost forgotten how to work PI its been so long
