Orion, Horsehead and Flame Nebula (toomanyhobbies)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Flame Nebula · Great Orion Nebula · IC 420 · IC 423 · IC 426 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Orion B · Orion Nebula · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star 31Ori · The star 42Ori · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star Mintaka (δOri) · The star θ1Ori · The star θ2Ori · And 4 more.

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Orion, Horsehead and Flame Nebula

I acquired a bit more gear and was anxious to try it out on a quarter moon night. My wife and I drove about 30 minutes out to our usual class 5 bortle location. When we arrived, we found the site was overrun with a music festival. After about an hour of driving and striking out again, we found a dark location by a lake which closed at 10. We arrived on site a little past 9. A quick 10 minute setup, I was able to polar align to within 30 arc seconds and then spent about 5 minute finding the target, focusing and then setting up auto guiding. Overall tracking error was about 1.5 arcminutes. We climbed into the car and I was able to snap about 20 60s lights before my wife said it was time to go for fear of the gates locking. I pack up my gear and we head out. I was fortunate to find out the location was a class 4 bortle and the lights turned out really great. It’s about 30m from home and we will definitely be returning, though with DST in full gear I can realistically expect only about 90 minutes of lights.

Spent the morning capturing calibration frames and a quick stack and calibration in pixinsight and here we are.

I’m counting this as backyard since it’s only about 30 minutes away.

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