Say hello to the Skull and Crossbones nebula. Also known as NGC 2467. I think it has proven to be a little too distant for a 150mm telescope to handle. I might have to revisit it with a longer lens sometime, but for now this will have to do.
Yarr
Month: December 2025
Seven sisters
I took some more time to get to know my new bit of kit last night, particularly scheduled shoots. I am going to chalk it up to learning settings, because I had several target shots and none of them came out the best they could. I took a photo of the Pleiades and didn’t really get much of the associated nebulosity. But at least I can find targets and my alignment wasn’t askew.
I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe
I think it’s the law that a novice deep space object photographer must shoot the Orion nebula. And there were luckily some breaks in the cloud this evening. So here’s my photo. Not bad for a Bortle 5 sky, but the highlights are a little blown out. I think I have to shoot shorter subexposures when it comes to objects like this.
Things are looking up
Today I received a little Christmas present I bought myself – a Dwarf Mini Smart Telescope and I promptly took an image of the sun. After giving the clouds a chance to disperse a little.
It seems that we’re going to have cloudy nights for roughly the next week, so you can blame me for that. But you can expect more astrophotography from me.
