M42 (Orion Nebula)

The night of Saturday March 14th, was again very good for astronomy. After the set up of all the devices, and done a precise alignment to the Polar star, the main goal for this night was the Orion nebula through the refrigerated QHY6 CCD, besides other type of objects as galaxies. The humidity oscillated in the whole night around 50 - 60% and the temperature was about 10 grades which was very bearable.

The night of February 18 to February 19 of 2009 was one of our first attempts to make some astrophotography with some degree of success. We were able to make to CG-5 mount to work, we made a polar alignment with EQAlign and autoguiding worked properly.

As we didn't have too much time, we decided to take a photo of M42 (yeah, so original). A few days earlier, Antonio tried to make a similar photo, but he only took 2 different exposure photos and we stacked them rapidly (so the result was not good).