Man it was really cold after the Sun went down last night. The temp in the dome was 5F and falling. I set up the camera, which was working at -50c, bundled up and thought all was going well untill I tried to process an image between filters and found the chip had frosted over. Looked like worms. Had to stop with only 8x5 minute exposures. Baking the plug today and might be able to start over tonight. You can see the frost on the upper right side of the full size image.
O-Well.
Mike H.

Still a great photo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto the great photo! Brrrrrrrrr.....
Mike

Very nice image just the same, Mike. I'm not sure I would be willing to brave the cold, but it does make for some very transparent skies with steady seeing, doesn't it?

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again, I see another INCREDIBLE photo from Mike Holloway. The beauty captured of the Orion Nebula is FABULOUS!!!!!!!

Don't see how you do this, Mike! Hope ya didn't get frostbite from this arctic cold spell!

PLEASE KEEP THOSE GORGEOUS SPACE PHOTOS COMING!

Lora Grosvold

Well I sent the worms packen and took new info last night including color. I want to say now it was so cold my autoguider quit working and just set there beepen. Next time I will gather some short exposures to tone the core down. This is a composit of R,G,B L and Ha filtered images totaling about 2hrs. This is a pretty big image set at 1600 pix wide (screen set at 1650x1050 I think) so if you can adjust your screen it would look more natural. Hope you all like it. Mike H.

Beautiful! I gotta agree the core does look a bit blown out. It's interesting that this image is inverted compared to the last one. Did you have your telescope upside down this time? Har! Har!