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That one night in November when the clouds finally broke over my backyard
I've been trying to shoot the Orion Nebula from my backyard in Columbus since late September and it has been rough. Light pollution here is bad enough, but the weather this fall was just brutal, clouds almost every clear-ish night I had free. Then on November 14th everything lined up. It was about 28 degrees out, sky was stupid clear, and I dragged my little 6 inch dob out at 11pm and just sat there for two hours. I got the best stack of subs I've ever managed, 40 frames at 30 seconds each before my fingers went numb. The weird part is the next week was total garbage again, rain and fog, so it felt like the sky gave me one free pass. I still haven't fully processed the data but the noise is so much lower than anything I got all season. Does anyone else feel like their best shots come from pure luck with timing more than gear or skill?
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