Orion together with his retinue of Taurus and Canis Major, are slowly descending into the Western half of the sky, and will be sadly lost to the glow of twilight, by the end of March.
And of cause with the disappearance of Orion, we also loose the great Orion nebula, or Messier 42.
The skies where I live in East Cheshire were once again clear on Sunday 6th, (why it does this on a Sunday, I don't know).
I took the opportunity to use my new, TS 9mm OAG on my 8" Orion F4 to see if my guiding has improved.
The Orion nebula was just in the right place to image at 20:00, and I banged off three exposure's. Two x Five minutes and One x 30 seconds for the core regain.
These where guided using the OAG and QHY5, whilst imaging through my Atik 16ic and filter wheel with a CLS filter all attached to the G11.
I've stacked these in DSS, and done some processing in CS2. I wanted to try if I could, to bring the highlight's down, to reveal more of the core regain, and to show the trapezium stars.
This I have done, and I also used a deep space noise reduction, together with a couple of small UN-sharp mask's.
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