Messier Objects
I highly recommend a book on Charles Messier and the creation of this catalogue - Atlas of Messier Objects, 2008 by Ronald Stoyan.
Note: This gallery should be automatically sorted by Messier #.
Orion's Sword - Orion and Running Man Nebulae - 20/11/2021 (Processed stack)
First light Raspbery Pi with Astroberry for Astrophotography from suburban home in Leeming (Bortle 6)
DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6 Stacked (46) of 55 Images Gain 100 @ 15 Sec, 35 DARK Gain 100 @ 60 Sec, 32 BIAS Gain 100 @ 1/1000 Sec, 19 FLATS Gain 100 @ 1/10000 Sec, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 with Astroflat and Noise Ninja
Telescope - PowerNewt 200mm f/4 with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector (at 55mm backfocus) for F=800mm f/4.0, IDAS NB1 filter, QHY 268C CMOS camera field 68' x 101' , Ambient ~18C, Camera 0C. Astroberry on RP-4B with Kstars/Ekos for EQMOD mount control, auto-focusing, plate solving and image acquisition. Mount - Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro. Guidescope - Orion ShortTube 80 with Starlight Xpress SuperStar (Mono) CCD Auto Guider and Ekos auto guiding software.
Galactic NebulaMessierM42 NGC1976 Orion NebulaM43 De Mairan's NebulaNGCNGC1973 Running Man NebulaNGC1975 Running Man NebulaNGC1976 M42 Orion NebulaNGC1977 Running Man NebulaNGC1981 Open ClusterNGC1982 M43 De Mairan's NebulaOpen Cluster
