Crab Nebula First Light

This is a stack of 9 frames of ten-minute exposures with the gain set to about 3/4 of maximum. No darks, bias, or flats are applied, and a basic non-linear stretch was performed in Photoshop. Click on the photo for the full sized image and then right click to view the image only and zoom (or download with the disk icon) to see the hot pixels. Note that JPEG artifacts will make those larger than they actually are.