Last night was very frustrating.
Took a while to setup all the gear, with a promising clear session ahead.
Once I was polar aligned I had to wait for Orion to clear some tall trees.
Sure enough as I slew over to the hh/flame area it clouded over with high staggered clouds.
I was fuming, instead of getting nice clean frames I got ghostly glowing patchy images. The majority were ruined.
This is the result of some that made it, but only just.
Once again I was beaten by the sunrise.
This is the image of the Horsehead and Flame nebulae.
Average Stack of 46 x 120 sec (1.5 hours) @ ISO 1600 (darks, flats, bias applied).
Imaged through the TOA 130 @ F/5.8 using the Canon 20Da.
You know I would like to see you lower that ISO down to 800.
Yeah Tony I was planning to shoot at 800 ISO but I was also going to capture for longer too. As the conditions deteriorated I bumped it to 1600 iso and only got 1.5 hours.
You don't know how lucky you are Tony to have an observatory.
I reckon you are getting too picky Mr RB. That is a cracker, and if it were mine I would be stoked. Like this forum and the planetary images being submitted, the bar has gone up a whole heap in the short time we have known each other.
If only I could do it................
I know what you mean about the clouds though.
Beautiful image RB despite the dodgy conditions , I don't know what could be possibly more frustrating then setting up your gear and tuning it for AP work and getting clouded out AARRGG
Mike, don't you know refractors aren't suppose to have spikes.
