Orion Nebula

Nice weather is announced for tonight and I have prepared myself a little bit.
First, I want to perform an alignment, then perform north orientation and then again an alignment. I setup the equipment west of the building so I hopefully can use the wifi (southwest does not work, presumably it has some jamming there). Then I would like to take a few pictures of the Orion Nebula and possibly the Horsehead Nebula with the EOS 550d. The first plans are ISO 1600, then ISO 800 and possibly ISO 400. Probably I will start at ISO 1600 with about 20s exposure time and see what the result looks like. First, I photographed the moon again:

After that, I took some pictures of the Orion Nebula. Here is a first (not very successful) picture.

I've exposed it to ISO 400 for 30s with the EOS 550D. As you can see on the pictures I still have a lot of work to do ... Right now I'm mainly fighting with the dew. After a short time, the optics begins to fog up and after an hour, almost the entire surface is completely misted. That is certainly a reason why the photos are not so good. Now I have to tackle one problem after another and find appropriate solutions.

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