M1 (The Crab nebula): 6 x 10 min subs of Ha, plus 6 x 10 min subs of OIII (2 hours total exposure) taken with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60 EDF Refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Data integrated and processed in Pixinsight/Adobe CS2. This supernova remnant is famous for having been witnessed by ancient Chinese astronomers in 1054 when the star that produced it exploded. Today it is still the brightest X-ray source in the night sky at a distance of 6,500 LY and its light can be seen faintly glowing as it continues to expand at half the speed of light.
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M1 HOO
NGC 188 (open cluster in Cepheus): 13 x 1 min subs of luminance (23 mins total exposure) taken with an ASI 533MM Pro camera attached to an Altair 60 EDF Refractor fitted with a 0.8 x FR. Data stacked in DSS and processed in Pixinsight/Adobe CS2. I often see this open cluster when polar aligning my scopes, as it is just 5 degrees away from the NCP, but this was the first time I actually imaged it. As I understand it this is one of the oldest clusters at around 7 billion years old lying some 5,000 LY distant.
NGC 188
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