It was another clear night - moonless until very late, so I took out the Dobs + asi294mc + 0.75FR to do some regular EAA.
I could never really get the EQ platform to track properly and had trouble stacking at times (so did some bin2 on some targets).
Overall not very good results.
At the end, I switched cameras and this used the Barlow to image Mars. This time the northern polar ice cap can be seen.
Observations:
- C56 Skull Nebula - Cetus
- C62 Needle Eye Galaxy - Cetus
- C65 Sculptor Galaxy
- Mel 3 Globular Cluster - Sculptor
- M33 Triangulum Galaxy
- M1 Crab Nebula - Taurus
- M45 Pleiades - Taurus
- NGC 1579 Northern Trifid Nebula
- M42 and M43 Great Orion Nebula and de Mairan's Nebula - Orion
- NGC2024 Flame Nebula - Orion
- IC 434 Horsehead Nebula - Orion - barely visible on image - but could see it during live stack
- Mars - northern polar ice cap visible
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| C56 Skull Nebula 35x1s (bin2) |
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| C62 Needle Eye Galaxy 48x2.5s (bin2) |
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| C65 Sculptor Galaxy 23x2.5s |
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| Mel 3 30x2s (bin2) |
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| M33 Triangulum Galaxy 48x2.5s (bin2) |
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| M1 Crab Nebula 36x2.5s (bin2) |
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| M45 Pleiades 74x2.5s (bin2) |
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| NGC 1579 Northern Trifid Nebula 53x2.5s (bin2) |
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| M42 and M43 35x2s |
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| M42 and M43 60x1s (medium gain) |
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| NGC2024 Flame Nebula 30x2s |
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IC 434 Horsehead Nebula 44x2s
 | Mars 20pc of 10282 x 0.8 ms
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