I just finished processing my first image after some recent astronomy upgrades. This fall, I gutted my telescope mount and rebuilt all the mechanical & electronic parts. My telescope is now permanently mounted in our back yard on a pier my brother designed & made. The new setup is tons better than lugging the tripod and all the equipment out every time I want to image. It now only takes me less than 5 minutes to start imaging each day.

This is the Orion Nebula, Messier 42. I gathered almost 20 hours of data from my back yard for this and processed it using an HOO palette.

Details:

• Explore Scientific ED127
• Celestron CGEM with OnStepX (wifi, GPS, weather, automated dew heaters)
• SBIG STF-8300C with an Optolong L-eXtreme filter
• Bold MFG pier
• Quieter 3C miniPC with NINA
• 117x 600s subframes
• Processed in Siril, Photoshop, BXT & NXT