Nice clear night in Cairns tonight. Annoying neighbour has his Million candelpower flood lights on again. I had a few technical difficulties with my CCD (star pointer on telescope battery dead, so couldn't align properly). I managed to get some decent photo's of my favourite part of the sky again, and even managed to get a decent wide shot of M31, my first ever photo of another galaxy.
Early this morning I also managed to get a few shots of M42, I'm proud of the close up of it, but not very proud of the processing, as I think I had a few issues with DSS.
Hi Jason, not a bad start. What set up are you using? Can you take a little bit longer subs? Is your mount Alt/Az or equatorial? If you take longer subs, you will get a lot more detail when you stack them. If you can't take longer subs then try taking a lot more short subs like 200 or so. Your doing great, a bit more practice and there will be no stopping you.
