This image is still in process. It was not the best night for attempting this since transparency was poor at the time of imaging it. Lots of LP in the 4 hrs of exposure accumulated and almost overwhelmed the dim galaxies. The color was zapped out, so I took an image with only about 2 hrs of time and used it as color and the 4 hrs of exposure was used as luminosity.
A quickie of M67. Marginal conditions with seeing and only average transparancy. But, you have to take what you can get in February. Hopefully, we’ll get more than just one or two nights of good skies in March.
Just over an hour’s worth of exposure for this one. This was the 2nd object of the night, the first being Betelgeuse, which was only a few frames.
I had better conditions for this shot at the beginning of the session than later in the night for other objects. Too bad it didn’t stay like that.
While shooting this, two older ladies came by to see what I was doing. Interesting conversation, but I think I went right over their heads trying to explain a supernova remnant. LoL! 🙂
A quickie Sunflower Galaxy. Needs more exposure, obviously. I killed some time waiting for M64 to get into position shooting this.
This object was the main goal of the night. Not quite the 3 hrs I wanted to give it, but almost. I took a nap while this was brewing, and ended it since the mount needed a meridian flip to keep going. Instead of doing that, I decided to get M13 instead.
Here’s a detail crop view with a little more color saturation to go along with the above:
Last object of my imaging session for the night of Feb 1st/2nd, 2020 was the globular cluster, M13. Twilight was just starting when I stopped at 100 sub-images. Not too bad for a quickie.
Here is an image of a comet that is big and bright enough to make some interesting images, especially when it passes near objects like the Double Cluster. I missed the closest approach of these two due to weather and other factors, but at least I got the parting shot of them together.
This one was difficult to bring out the nebula since the UHC-S filter blocks some of the blue that this object predominantly shines in. But, it captures enough of the OIII, Hydrogen Alpha and Beta light to produce an image even from the heavily light-polluted location that I’ve been imaging from.