M-66 Revisited

[dmill1220]

Hi folks,
I finally got a break in the weather tonight so I dragged out my Celestron 6 inch refractor, my Meade DSI 1st one shot 1st generation CCD camera, and my 0.5X Focal reducer.

I got very lazy tonight and I didn't want to get cold, so I set up just outside my driveway window and ran my USB cord through the window to my laptop that was inside where its nice and warm.

After drift aligning, I managed to get several subs of M-66, I used 30 second subs unguided, I saved quite a few in the Fits format but, I also opted to save some as a jpeg, the following shot is 25-30 second subs auto combined and auto stacked In the normal operating Jpeg mode of the Autostar software. No post processing has been performed.

Dennis

[dmill1220]

here is the shot