m50

2 days to full moon and enough light to read the newspaper comfortably, I surrendered all aspirations to snap a galaxy and instead decided to test edgar@PHD2's new ppec beta 3. Not too bad, despite the moonlight wrecking the starlight.

open cluster m50 in monoceros

700d and pn208  10x90s + 20x60s @ ISO800

Even lower and with dangerously horizontal telescopes...

open cluster m41 in canis major

700d and pn208  12x60s @ ISO800