I should
have known better than to go out when the moon was up and bright. But alas, I went out anyway. I had the bug. I tried a few objects, but all were too dim
to see behind the bright white light of the moon. I imaged M101, but it came out rather dim and
the background light was terrible. I
also imaged M81, but those came out terrible too. I tried for a few others, but couldn’t really
find them. I also tried for the Blinking
Planetary Nebula, which was quite bright, but too bright, actually, to see any
of its detail.
Blinking Planetary Nebula, Nikon D3100 on my C11 without the focal reducer
14x30s, ISO-3200, no flat
It was so
bright, in fact, that the image above was exactly how it came out of DSS –
usually, those are too dark to see the actual object (that’s why the background
is so dark). I didn’t look at this one
visually – I should have. Next time.
I also
tried to image some planets as a consolation prize (I was able to stay out late
because it was a Friday night, and I stayed out till like 2 AM), but the C11 is
terrible at planets, its aperture is too big.
Maybe I should get like an off-axis small aperture for it to decrease
the amount of area for badly-bent light rays to enter, to put it in layman’s
terms. I couldn’t even really get them
to focus in the eyepiece (the seeing was also probably bad).
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