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M42 / 20-02-26, Jochen
M42 / 20-02-26
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M42 / 20-02-26

M42 / 20-02-26, Jochen
M42 / 20-02-26
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M42 / 20-02-26

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Hey everyone,

this is my first attempt on deepsky astrophotography. I wanted to start a long time ago, but have been living in a big city for the last 15-20 years with bright illuminated skies and so I stuck to shooting some Moon and Jupiter images until recently.

I chose M42 as a first target because I wanted to concentrate on something rather bright as a first.

The above image is 30 * 70s / ISO400 as I only had 2h of relatively clear skies to set everything up, polar align and shoot. Next time I definately need to focus on a better polar alignment and focus it seems.

Stacking was done with DSS and Post-Processing in Affinity Photo.

Any feedback welcome. Glad to be here.

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M42 / 20-02-26, Jochen