First light - autoguiding methods, scope, camera, dithering: M42 and running man (Ian Dixon)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 36 ups Ori · 41 the01 Ori · 42 c Ori · 43 the02 Ori · 44 iot Ori · 45 Ori · 49 d Ori · De Mairan's nebula · Great Orion Nebula · Hatysa · IC 420 · IC 430 · Lower Sword · M 42 · M 43 · Mairan's Nebula · NGC 1973 · NGC 1975 · NGC 1976 · NGC 1977 · NGC 1980 · NGC 1981 · NGC 1982 · NGC 1999 · Orion Nebula · Sh2-279 · Sh2-281 · Thabit · The star 42Ori · The star 45Ori · And 9 more.

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First light - autoguiding methods, scope, camera, dithering: M42 and running man

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This was a series of firsts (relative to my experience):

- New dark sight (St. Malo, Manitoba) - in the "deep south" of Manitoba, ha ha - roughly 80 km south of my city.

- This image is my first using autoguiding of any description. 🙂

- First time using ASIair pro to manage platesolving and guiding. I did my polar alignment the old fashioned way.

- first image of M42 in August.

- First light for my 290mm mini mono camera as a guidescope.

Not much data here, because we had to wait until about 4:30 am for Orion to climb high enough to image, and then the sun began to wash the sky in the east.

Dithering is some kind of strange and wonderful magic - it seemed to work. 🙂

I also managed to catch running man in this image, along with M42.

Thanks to my buddies, Kevin G for explaining autoguiding to me, Ryan for loaning me an anti-dew strip for the guidescope, and David M for his knowledge of the skies.

Thanks for looking!

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RA (center)	05h35m22s.90
RA (top/left)	05h30m37s.27
RA (top/right)	05h29m59s.23
RA (bottom/right)	05h40m09s.73
RA (bottom/left)	05h40m43s.35

Dec (center)	-05°29′41″.3
Dec (top/left)	-03°32′55″.6
Dec (top/right)	-07°19′36″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	-07°26′35″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	-03°39′33″.0

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