Original intention was to have a go at NGC253 but, after spending all night unsuccessfully trying to drift align .
I only ended up with two, 2 minute exposures of the Orion neb.
ISO 800
GSO 6" Newtonian
D200
Will eventually come together!!!
Practice, practice, practice.
Well Deeno that's better than what I would get with 1hr on colour film 25yrs ago, in fact something like that would have been good enough to get published in Sky & Telescope, perhaps even the front cover, back then, so we have come along way.
At least you got something from the nights efforts, always good
I wouldn't like to stack my first M42 attempt up with that one Deeno. What didn't happen for you for most of the rest of the night doesn't matter if this is what you can achieve while yer packin yer gear up !!!! I would have believed you if you said that M42 is the only thing you image and you think you are getting pretty good at it !!!!
Wow!!
Thanks for the response.
Feeling really motivated after what was a long and frustrating night.
Even though the tracking is poor and the focus isn't great, I think there is some real potential to build upon for what is a very basic setup.
Very very nice first attempt.. I can only hope mine goes so well.
great first shot 
