M42 From Austin Tx

Hello All.

Here is an M42 image from a popular site in Austin Tx, Mansfield Dam. Seeing was good last night, but the site has a fair amount of light pollution, as well as M42 not being as high in the sky as it should. Anyway, it was fun getting out and imaging, which I haven’t done in quite some time.

Details: AP-152 Starfire, CGE, Canon 300D using DSLR Focus control software. 16 x 30 seconds, combined in Astroart 3 and final processing in Paint Shop Pro 7.

R,

Joe

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Thanks for that image from Mansfield Dam. Its a great one for the degraded skies we have. Word around town is you guys are doing a lot of good things for astronomy over there. I'm over here at Bee Cave and 360 so I really would like to stop by and visit.

Well done Joe, specially under your conditions... good amount of detail captured in your shot.
In a month (or two) things should get better as far as imaging M42...


Keep it up, and thanks for sharing!

Nice one Joe.

That's a very nice shot, Joe!

Eric