Things went very well for 2 nights (28th and 29th of January) while aiming at this “Black Stallion”. Seven hours of luminance, halpha, green and red filtered frames were combined here.

Searching for interesting objects for yesterdays session i ended up with IC 417. It doesn’t show up that much when you google it. Normally that means it ‘ll be a tough job. And it is! Total exposure time is 5 hours. The seeing was quite good, transparency however not too good. The QSI camera is more »

Maxim (capturing software) was nice to me last night! After capturing 2 hours of Halpha data of the core of NGC2244 and the Rosette nebula, last night i also found 2 frames of blue and green filtered subs on the computer (forgot to deselect in the sequence). I was aiming at Halpha only and since more »