Canon 500D camera with EF-200/2.8L lens on EQ6 equatorial mount guided by a QHY5 camera and  PHDGuiding. Stacked 5 frames in Deep Sky Stacker, total exposure ca 5 minutes. Shot on Sat-Sun night 23-24 Jan 2010 in cool -18 C but calm weather. Would have wanted longer exposures and more frames, but the guiding wasn’t working very [...]

It seems like ages since the skies were clear last time. Must be around 2 months I think. Last evening however was good for astrophotography again. My target was the Orion nebula, or M42. I took 40 sub-exposures, each 60s long, but half of them were out of focus , and a couple of the [...]