Last night, I was photographing for almost 7 hours, 4 hours before my camera battery died, and then almost another 3 hours after that. I started off taking 50 shots of the moon, because I figured if the night didn't go well, I can play with those!
I went with out a plan last night, because I knew there was a full moon. I just figured I'd take some shots of the moon, and then just play around, get some practice. I was able to get set up super quickly, with polar alignment in about 30 minutes (That's a new record for me). I spent another 10 minutes taking some shots of the moon, and then I used the "sky tour" function in the
I got to the Little Dumbbell Nebula and I decided to take a 2 minute exposure. I was actually able to see a TINY bit of blue on the screen, I was shocked! So what did I do? I spent the remaining 6 hours photographing it.
I attempted to stack the 142 images, 94 from before my camera died, and 48 later in the night. Unfortunately, my camera's T-adapter slipped from the compression ring, attached to the focuser, and the first 94 images were flipped upside down for some reason. I flipped the images, and attempted to stack all of the pictures, but I got a weird result. I gave up and stacked only the 48 images. I was able to get a bit of color from the nebula, which I still think is really cool, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed in my light polluted skies and poor framing.
Then, I remembered the moon images. I figured what the heck, I stacked em, and actually got a pretty cool result (I think). Let me know what you all think! I thought it looked pretty good!
- Full Moon.tif (21.8 MiB) Viewed 1759 times
- Little Dumbbell.tif (19.89 MiB) Viewed 1759 times
Thanks for reading, everyone
Clear skies!
See I'm learning! Lol
