Another clear night, I can’t believe it! I wanted to revisit Orion but have to wait for it to come around to the South West before I can get there without a meridian flip. While waiting for the heavens to turn overhead I took some images of the usual suspects, M29 (which is near to Daneb where I do my first alignment) followed by NGC6946, The Bubble Nebula, M76 for the first time and NGC891. After this I moved around to the Horsehead nebula, M42, M43 and also had a go at M78.

I spent some time on Orion, after capturing a half decent M43 I thought I’d move a frame southwards and see if I could stich the 2 images together. That led me to a frame to the east, then another and you guessed before you know it I’d taken 11 seperate images to form a partial mosaic of the area. I will revisit to finish this and will only show a rough stitching here for now:

The Great Orion Nebula

The Bubble Nebula

NGC6946 Galaxy