Very nice capture of the galaxy and supernova! I'm impressed you captured so much!

Isabelle

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Thanks Isabelle, it's difficult to capture being unguided but it was certainly worth a try!

I'm "unguided" all the time but I have never captured anything like this! Once again congratulations!

Isabelle

Thanks again Isabelle I have some DSO's on my blog and my messier list if your interested:

Ray's Astro-Photography Site

It's an ongoing project, but keeps me busy :-)

I have a Messier list as well and am currently using the TUMOL R3.0 to organize all the deep space objects I have seen so far. I will definitely visit your site!

Isabelle

Great site! Love your M10 and especially M27!

Isabelle

i have not see niether to date ,to much lp at my house but will get to see it soon a hope nice pics

ps its a great pic you should try adding 15x 1`4000 of a sec i added them to one of mine also stretch a old white t shirt over the end of the scope and shine a bright light at it and take 15 x subs of that let the camera sort the speed and all the rest out put it on auto the bias lights will lift your pics i tried it the other night on some wide field shots it made a big diference i love the pics you did and are very jelous i only have a 90mm refractor and with the light pol i have here its just a dream at the min the 12"reflector is on a non motor base so thats a pain

pat

Hello Pat & Isabelle.

Thanks for the comments, I will look at adding bias sub's thanks for the info, up to now it has been a work in progress, and a lot of trial and error, I have to travel to my dark site for photography, so it means setting everything up from scratch each night. At present I'm just allowing the mount to guide, have made lot's of adjustments and learnt various tricks to get decent tracking, to really improve I will be getting a autoglider at some stage, the Skywatcher stand alone one looks the best option for me, will allow less gear to be taken. The autoglider will allow longer exposures and bring out the detail of the DSO, but that's for the future, for now I will have to keep the images unguided and short exposures. I have only used the 120mm refractor for imaging, being wide-field it's easier to track, my 200p suffers from star trails in the images, but this is where the autoglider will help.

Pat: good luck with the 250mm reflector I hope you get one!

Ray

Good job, well done, good post, liked the image, yours paul.

awsome pictures

I'm jealous. I want to be able to do that ;-)