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Sky was clear Wednesday night, so I did "Backyard Astrophotography Attempt Number ~One Zillion"; and hey my calibration frames actually worked! I think I'm finally getting the hang of this!
Here's 200 minutes of Andromeda, and just 28 minutes of Orion, taken with a Canon M50 mark ii attached to a low-cost achromatic refracting telescope (SV-48p: 90mm, f/5.6).
Somewhat light-polluted semi-urban environment -- about Bortle 5.5

Deep-sky photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy. It's an oblique view of a large spiral galaxy, which appears as a golden haze with vaguely spiral-shaped dust lanes and a glowing inner core; set atop a field populated by thousands of different-colored stars. A pair of fainter, more distant galaxies are also within the frame.
The Orion Nebula, a loose cluster of stars together with diffuse, cloudlike formations glowing in turquoise and magenta. Some dust obscures the dense core, where myriad stars are being born. A smaller nebulous region also emits a turquoise glow, with swirling dust; which both obscures the glow and reflects light from the young stars within.
Oct 05, 2024, 03:30 AM·Public·Web
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