nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina

It was brr cold for me! 27 degrees and seeing was poor. I imaged for 1.5 hours, stopped at 10:40 as the meridian required work I didn't feel like fooling with plus the National Championship Football game was in my way along with clouds. After deleting over 1/2 of the files I had 22 subs - far too few for this far away DSO. The supporting files were 30 darks, 50 bias, and 80 flats.

I used my 8 inch SCT, AVX mount, PHD2 guiding, 2 minute exposures for subs and PEC ....used the Nikon D810a.
Most of the heavy lifting was done in PixInsight - I used Luminosity layers in PS and here she blows.
I plan to plate solve tonight - clearer skies predicted - and try to add 40 or more new subs to improve on the SN.
Tomorrow night is suppose to be even better - so hope to add a few more hours of the same.

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Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Looks like you got a pretty nice crab for dinner there mister.
Not to much butter and just the right amount of salt.
Nicely done.
;)

nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Thank you Sir!

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Nice work Ed, I know how dim the Crab Nebula (M1) is and difficult to photograph.
My shot was very grainy (old school) and took tons of processing.
If you are getting M1 you can get most anything.
Craig

nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina

Thanks Craig.....I started out an hour ago dead set on getting some more M1 frames but end up targeting M81. I have about one hour of imaging so far....hoping i can get enough cloudless subs between now and midnight to get a decent image.

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Good luck Ed M81 is a great one to shoot.
Can't wait to see them.
Craig