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Orion and the Whirlpool
Managed to get a few images in a shorter night with my SCT. Was having mount trouble unfortunately. M87 was a new observation. I was hoping to resolve the jet at the core, but wasn’t getting enough stars to align repeated exposures. Looks like I accidentally saved out my only image with star markers enabled.
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M42
Center (RA, Dec): (83.834, -5.393) Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 20.156s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 23′ 34.288″ Size: 11.7 x 7.19 arcmin Radius: 0.114 deg Pixel scale: 0.236 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 24.4 degrees E of N
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M42
Center (RA, Dec): (83.825, -5.403) Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 18.023s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 24′ 09.442″ Size: 13.2 x 8.28 arcmin Radius: 0.130 deg Pixel scale: 0.262 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 334.7 degrees E of N
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M42
Center (RA, Dec): (83.818, -5.372) Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 16.260s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 22′ 17.801″ Size: 11.9 x 7.59 arcmin Radius: 0.118 deg Pixel scale: 0.532 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 340.9 degrees E of N
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M42
Center (RA, Dec): (83.825, -5.466) Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 18.103s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 27′ 58.542″ Size: 12.9 x 8.19 arcmin Radius: 0.127 deg Pixel scale: 0.262 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 343.9 degrees E of N
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M42
Center (RA, Dec): (83.851, -5.415) Center (RA, hms): 05h 35m 24.314s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 24′ 52.306″ Size: 12.1 x 7.53 arcmin Radius: 0.118 deg Pixel scale: 0.262 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 350.9 degrees E of N
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Orion Nebula
Center (RA, Dec): (83.711, -5.422) Center (RA, hms): 05h 34m 50.711s Center (Dec, dms): -05° 25′ 19.755″ Size: 63.9 x 42.9 arcmin Radius: 0.642 deg Pixel scale: 1.24 arcsec/pixel Orientation: Up is 95.2 degrees E of N
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DSOs at 70mm
I decided to stick to my little scope again while learning my new mount, and managed to capture several objects. I think I’ve got it figured out well enough to move back to my big scope next time. With the light polluted skies here 70mm isn’t enough to get much out of fainter targets.
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M46, NGC 2438 and M42
This is only a small portion of open cluster M46, and it contains planetary nebula NGC 2438 (which is much closer, and only in M46 by coincidence) in the shot. And another shot of M42 because it’s big and bright and pretty.
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M1 and M42
I took a few quick stacks of M1 and M42. M1 was cut short by light clouds illuminated by a full moon, so once again I don’t have a good long exposure of it.
