Last night was forecast to be clear until midnight so I loaded my portable setup into the car for the short trip over to the observatory. After last week, when 2 of us turned up for the regular tuesday night meeting, the evening was very well attended by club members. As the observatory was full I setup on the telescope pad outside.
Target for the evening was IC 1805 & IC 1848 between Cassiopia and Perseus and before the cloud closed me down I got 9 ten minute exposures. The camera was my QHY9C with the Canon 75-300mm zoom lens. I seem to be spending a lot of time with this combination at the moment with it’s 10 degree diagonal FOV and I’m starting to feel the lure of the 135mm f/2 prime lens with it’s faster light gathering and better colour correction. Maybe next year.
