Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Taurus (Tau)  ·  Contains:  Crab nebula  ·  M 1  ·  NGC 1952
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Messier 1 - the crab nebula, Simon
Messier 1 - the crab nebula
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Messier 1 - the crab nebula

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Messier 1 - the crab nebula, Simon
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Messier 1 - the crab nebula

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Extraordinarily I took 100! subs of this at 4 minutes in length each - a total integration time of 6 hours 40 minutes. A record for me! I had dreadful skies and the low down murkiness was very bad. 35 images in, the individual subs began to improve as the object rose higher in the sky, but they were never that great even then. The houses being built behind me, plus other light sources are making things very difficult here. It would be easy to chuck the towel in, especially as since the other night my guider is now malfunctioning. Anyway, I used my 8" Quattro with the Atik 4120 EX for this image.

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Messier 1 - the crab nebula, Simon