Object

M42 (Orion Nebula)

Telescope

Celestron NexStar SE 8

Focal length

1016mm (0.5 focal reducer)

Filters

IR block

Camera

Philips SPC900NC SC1 (long exposure mod)

Exposure

16x15s (only 2 pictures usable due to clouds). No dark frame taken (I simply forgot to take one :-( ).

Capturing Software

K3CCDTools3 3.5.10.1082

Stacking Software

Giotto 2.12

Atmospheric conditions

Seeing: 6 of 10 (Pickering), Transparency: bad (clouds), Darkness: illuminated by city lights

Location

Aschaffenburg, Germany

Date

2009 February 17, 21:15 UTC

Comment:
This is my first shot using my new modded webcam. For the first try it is OK. But the conditions were really not good.