Well, the day was absolutely beautiful, with sunshine and clear blue skies. But of course as night fell, the high clouds began to drift through. 
So, I started with M45 and just did a 30 minute of each color and then moved to Orion. However, Orion kept getting covered with the thin high clouds, so I decided to change my plans and move north to M81-82. Not much choice really as the clouds were everywhere, but north was at least mostly clear of the thicker bands.
M81-82 I decided to take a full set, 60 min of RGB and 90 min of Lum. I set CCDSoft and went to sleep about 11:30pm and let it finish without my help. If figured it would be fine or not, but me staying up would not help.
I woke up a 4am and shut everything down, covered the scope and laptop and when back to bed.
Really, I was surprised to see that I got any image at all. Here are the results of my efforts. Not the images I planned on taking, but better than nothing I guess.
First, M45
So, I started with M45 and just did a 30 minute of each color and then moved to Orion. However, Orion kept getting covered with the thin high clouds, so I decided to change my plans and move north to M81-82. Not much choice really as the clouds were everywhere, but north was at least mostly clear of the thicker bands.
M81-82 I decided to take a full set, 60 min of RGB and 90 min of Lum. I set CCDSoft and went to sleep about 11:30pm and let it finish without my help. If figured it would be fine or not, but me staying up would not help.
I woke up a 4am and shut everything down, covered the scope and laptop and when back to bed.
Really, I was surprised to see that I got any image at all. Here are the results of my efforts. Not the images I planned on taking, but better than nothing I guess.
First, M45
Attached Image:
[SIZE="Large"][/SIZE][COLOR="Blue"][/COLOR] Floyd Blue
Amateur Imager
