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M45 - First light with RedCat 51, Sarah
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M45 - First light with RedCat 51

M45 - First light with RedCat 51, Sarah
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M45 - First light with RedCat 51

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First light with my RedCat 51, and first light with something that isn't just the kit zoom lens for my camera. It's often cloudy here around Dublin, so I was excited to have a relatively cloudless night the same night I got the RedCat.

Struggled a bit with noise, I think maybe due to the short-ish exposure times per subframe, this is a fairly cropped down view to get rid of the worst colour banding I was seeing. Also had a little bit of star trailing, I think due to not balancing properly and maybe not polar aligning perfectly either.

Overall quite happy with this, as it was my first light of the season as well, so I wasn't sure if I had remembered to bring everything and if I had set everything up correctly. Looking forward to the next clear night so I can make a second attempt.

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M45 - First light with RedCat 51, Sarah