Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  22 o Ori  ·  25 Ori  ·  27 p Ori  ·  28 eta Ori  ·  31 Ori  ·  34 del Ori  ·  41 the01 Ori  ·  42 c Ori  ·  43 the02 Ori  ·  44 iot Ori  ·  45 Ori  ·  46 eps Ori  ·  48 sig Ori  ·  49 d Ori  ·  50 zet Ori  ·  Alnilam  ·  Alnitak  ·  B33  ·  De Mairan's nebula  ·  Great Nebula in Orion  ·  Hatysa  ·  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 423  ·  IC 426  ·  IC 430  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  M 42  ·  And 35 more.
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Orion's Southern Hemisphere, astropical
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Orion's Southern Hemisphere

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Orion's Southern Hemisphere

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Since I am failing to get round stars even with a 28mm lens on the Star Adventurer for 30 seconds, I tried PHD2 autoguiding in RA with a 135mm prime lens (set to F4) for the first time. Now this looks much better with an 88% yield of good light frames. The winter constellations will soon no longer be in favorable positions in that I pointed the rig at southern Orion which already crossed the meridian. The stars are round enough in the center, while the right side shows elongated stars, an unclarified phonomena I observed before. Anyway, this result would have been difficult to obtain with tracking only. This marks the end of lazy astrophotography.

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Orion's Southern Hemisphere, astropical