It's been a long time since I had a good chance to open the roof on my observatory. Last time was Halloween night!
But if you have been watching the news lately, you'll know that Seattle has been clobbered with record rains, then snow and ice, and finally last week the worst windstorm in 10 years! I had power, but most didn't so the skies were clear (and a bit darker than usual since 80% were without power) but very smokey from fireplace fires for heat all over the cities.

Here is the Rosette from a couple nights ago. It's my first try at this object and it's only a stack of 6 images, so it's a bit noisy. I'll work on this some more when I get a chance to collect some more photons!

Tom
Highlands Astro-Shack observatory

Very nice! Keep up the good work! My brother-in-law lives in the Black Diamond area, so I guess he's had bad weather also. We've had a few days of off-and-on rain here in Southern California within the past couple of weeks. Now it's only cold (at least for here-it was 22 degrees on my porch this morning before I left for work).

I recently bought Meade's 80mm ED-APO, and need to get out to try capturing some good images like this - I don't have an autoguider, so I guess I'll be doing some manual guiding with a second scope - thanks for your post and photo!

Paul

__________________
Photons are free. Take some!