Started at 10pm
Focus position main scope 12,233
Ended observing at 6:10am
A beautiful night with 0.8’ seeing. Started with a set of globs, namely more data for M62,
M62 single 5 min sub
a new globular cluster M80
M80 single 5 min sub
and globular cluster M19,
M19 single 5 min sub
then finally the Crescent nebula which I managed to grab just shy of 3 hours on. I ran all the way to twilight at around 6am and then packed up for bed by 7am.
Crescent Nebula 48 x 5 min subs
Crop of Crescent
Started imaging at 22:20
Focus position main scope 12,330
I ended my observing at 6:15am
Tonight started with low cloud making it slightly hazy although the seeing was around 0.7’.
I found setting the guider to a shorter exposure of 3s improves the guide graph considerably.
Makarian’s Chain – Final stacked image from 3 nights of data
I took another hour of Markarian’s Chain before moving on to M4 for another hour of data.
M4 single 5 min sub
Next I slewed to the first new object for tonight M62 another glob very close to M4. I took 12 images of M62 the globular cluster in Ophiuchus.
M62 single 5 min sub
All was going really well so I moved on to M39 the Open Cluster Cygnus and being high up I took 2 hours of data.
M39 single 5 mins sub
Lastly before bed I took my first set of data on the Crescent Nebula NGC 6888
NGC 6888 Crescent Nebula single 5 min sub
