Very Amateur Astronomy

We had a lovely clear night last night, slightly spoilt by a nearly full moon but not spoilt enough to stop me getting out and doing some images.  I spent some time getting more data for my M42 image which I will hopefully have processed soon, but I also spent some time on M81 and M82.  This was a great test of my guiding setup, I settled for 5 minute exposures at iso800, though I think without the moon I would have been better off at 8 or 10 minutes at iso400. However I am very happy with the result so far, which has been aligned and stacked in Iris and processed in Pixinsight.

• Orion Optics 250mm F4.7 Reflector
• Vixen Sphinx SX Mount
• Baader MPCC
• Astronomik CLS CCD Filter
• Canon EOS 1000D
• 24 x 5 Minute exposures at iso800

Guiding Setup

• Vixen A70LF refractor with 0.6x Focal Reducer
• Modified SPC900NC
• Guidemaster auto guiding software

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