During the historic Artemis II lunar fly-by on the 6th/7th April, a couple of members attended Fairwood for some observing and deep sky imaging, with the live feed from NASA being streamed via a mobile phone. Following the reappearance of the Orion capsule from behind the Moon, some images were taken for posterity as the Moon rose over the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory and it was cool to know that a spaceship carrying 4 humans was returning from the far side of the Moon and the most distant part of space that we humans have so far travelled. The Moon image was a stack of 58 RAW's taken with a Sony ZV-E10 camera fitted with a 350mm zoom lens, with the images stacked in Autostakkert!4, wavelet processed in Registax with final processing done in Adobe Lightroom. A mobile phone was used to capture a screen grab of the NASA live feed and to take some scene setting images of the activity at the observatory at the time.
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Some DSO images were also taken with the society's Pegasus SmartEye using a SkyWatcher Esprit 80ED with 29 minutes exposure of the Great Orion nebula (M42) 2.5 hours of the Medusa nebula (NGC4565) and 3 hours of the Croc's eye galaxy (M94).
M94
Chris Bowden
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