M27 comes out of hiding.

[Buldric]

Those of you whom I have been talking to know that I have had some problem getting nebula's to show up in my pictures. This problem mainly being that to take an exposure longer than 30 seconds, I needed the remote, which, until tonight, I did not have.

For those of you that live on the island as well, you know that tonight was fairly cloudy...and I was running in the rain putting my telescope away. It was a very poor night for observing, let alone astrophotography. Yet I had to try some longer exposure anyways.

The results I recieved were extremely encouraging, even though I was only able to take one "decent" 2 min exposure of M27 before it started raining. The picture does have some minor star trailing, something I didn't have enough time to work out, and I still need to install a counterweight system to my scope (probably consisting of some taped on weights by tomorrow night).

The picture is also quite noisy I'll admit, as I was using ISO 1600 in the attempt to make a nebula show up. Also the fact that during the exposure a cloud passed through the picture didn't help... However, nonetheless here it is!

[sunofsky]

I enjoyed your images above, they are very fine.