Ever since I observed this cluster and planetary through Mike's 10 inch (and I forget which eyepiece and filter) at SPSP last month I have wanted to image these objects.
Last week my son and I finally got autoguiding going so were able to do just that, from our won backyard
This image-a cropped and resized for posting -is at full resolution.
A stack of six 3minute images- levels adjusted in photoshop.
Anything over 4 minutes gets almost completely washed out. At 5 minutes-forget it
The best part of autoguiding? while the scope is doing its thing, I could sit back with my binos and observe at the same time.
Objects I observed that night included
M41
2516
2808
3114
3293
2602
3372-of course
omega Centauri
4755
M50
M46?/47?-I find it very hard with binos to tell which cluster
M42-of course
M104
tried hard for the Leo triplet but failed..so imaged it the next night ..still processing
