eddie3000

Well, this thread has been going on for quite a while, so here is my little contribution with my very first DSO object taken in August 2009. It's Andromeda galaxy. I had only just bought my heq5 goto mount, I still didn't have a telescope back then (I had to save and wait another year for my gorgeous mak-newt). The picture was taken with a Nikon D80, a Sigma 70-200 f2.8 lens and a Sigma 2x teleconverter. I can't quite remember, but I think I took 10 raw exposures, 1600iso, 60sec each, and mixed/averaged out in the camera with no pc post-processing. The goto mount found the object for me, I hadn't the faintest idea where m31 was!:) I even had a lot of trouble doing a 3-star alignment because the only star I knew was Betelgeuse:o:o

I must point out that this first result had a fair bit of beginner's luck. My following attempts were far far worse, very frustrating too.