Last Winter Nebulae this Year
One of the reasons for getting the Hyperstar optics for my C9 last year was the fact that objects like M42 are almost impossible to properly capture with a normal reducer or let alone at full focal length. Now with the winter almost over I noticed that somehow other projects were always taking precedence in the very few clear nights we had during the past moths. So I started imaging M42 using the Optolog L-eXtreme while the Moon was still out. Luckily I was able to add more frames without Moon getting to almost 10.5h total exposure time. In processing I tried to find a compromise between showing the structure of M42 itself and the surrounding nebulosity. The next object I started imaging, again with the Hyperstar and the Optolong L.eXtreme filter, was the Seagull Nebula. If you want to show the beautiful Seagull features of this nebula it is a slightly bigger object, so I had to compile it as a mosaic. Each mosaic tile has 5h exposure time (150x2mins). IC2177 - Seagull Nebula The last