m43 and the Trapezium

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #1 05-10-2011, 04:30 PM

Cropped from the larger M42 I'm working on.
6 hrs of data so far.

canon 550d, ed80 and heq5pro mount
dss and cs3

mill (Martin) · #2 05-10-2011, 04:59 PM

If you can adjust focus a tiny bit more and take some 5 Second exposures and blend them in you will have the perfect trap, but there are already 4 stars visible so it is pretty well focused.
Here is the 10 Second trap with my QHY9 focused by hand (i know you want a ccd cam

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jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #3 05-10-2011, 05:08 PM

I used 30 sec subs for the trap for this one.
Next clear night I'll do some 5 sec ones as well.

thanks for the tip.
It's been great fun working on this. Itching to add more to it.

mill (Martin) · #4 05-10-2011, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

It's been great fun working on this. Itching to add more to it.

Same here but it looks like the clouds strike again for the rest of the week