A couple of nights of wide field after a great galaxy season

Well galaxy season was fun and it gave me some good times with my first big telescope, the Edge 8HD, but after not having any wide field targets for a few months, it was nice to get a couple shots out of the meade 70mm APO and try out my new Spacecat51! I had some troubles leading up to these shots because of my HEQ5 pro mount but they were worked out for these shots. I will save those fixes for another post. Here was my first target:

This is the Elephants trunk. It is huge… This was shot at 300 seconds x 30 subs. Used the L-enhance on the meade 70mm and this was my first use of my new asi071mc pro. Ive seen some excellent images of this target before and while mine doesn’t look like the hubble space pallet, I really like the way it turned out. I think I might try this one again because I think I can get more out of it. Here is my next night’s image:

Now we are talking! I think my horsehead nebula is my favorite image but this is a very close second and I did this from my backyard! Here is the eastern and western veil nebula. This is also another 30x300 second exposure and I did this with the Spacecat 51 and the asi294mc pro. I regret not using the 071 on this target because I think I could’ve pulled out a little more detail but its hard for me to complain about this image. I will definitely take some more shots at this as it comes up higher in the sky with some different setups. I also want to try and edit this image again and get rid of some stars. Dunno if that is possible but Im gonna try.