by Brendan Alexander
Location: Killygordon, Co. Donegal.
Time: 20:30-22:00
Date: 14 March 2010
Target: Orion's Belts (inculding M42 and the Horsehead Nebula)
Exposures: Seven ten minute exposures (6 Darks). 70mins total exposure. Combined with 15 x 30sec and 30 x 15sec exposures for the core of the Orion nebula.
Equipment: Mount- Celestron CG4
Camera- Unmodified Canon 1000D
Lens- 70-300mm Sigma APO working at 135mm
Additional- Astronomik cls clip LP filter.
Stacking & Processing: DeepSkyStacker & Photoshop 7.0