M51 au 150mm

zetajanus · (#1 (**permalink**))

Hello Everybody!

Yesderday, I tried to shoot M51. I thought obtains a better result but on 55x120s, I keeped just 22x120s, my secondary mirror was misted, and I didn't see...
But the result is not too bad because we can see IC4263, NGC5169 and NGC5198...

Instrument: C6N on Heq5 Pro
Camera: Eos300D
Processing: Iris+photoshop
unguided (manuel guiding)...I don't know the good word in english...I hope that you can understand !

open to hear your advices!

lunator · (#2 (**permalink**))

Very nice pic ZJ

Plenty of detail.

Cheers

Ian

ant · (#3 (**permalink**))

I agree very nice image.

Plenty of detail in the spiral arms. I, personally, prefer M51 with a bi of space around her. Put's it into perspective for me.

Very nice shot for unguided!

Background could do with be a little darker? or am I wide of the mark on that?

Ant

TJ · (#4 (**permalink**))

Thats a very good shot for the 300D, end even more so when you consider it was not auto-guided.

Thanks for posting

zetajanus · (#5 (**permalink**))

thanks for your comments!

Yfronto · (#6 (**permalink**))

Nice deep and clean image despite the lost subs.

Mike.