Just had to do it - M51 & SN

[Dave Smith]

My Skyshed POD does not allow me to image close to the zenith and so had to wait until about 1 am this morning to start on this and then by around 2 am the sky was brightening.

14 x 5 mins at iso 800 with a modded 40D and FL102s scope.

In spite of the noise I am very happy to have captured my first SN.

Dave

[Dave]

Nice one Dave. That looks like it is getting a bit brighter.

[Astrokev]

My Skyshed POD does not allow me to image close to the zenith and so had to wait until about 1 am this morning to start on this and then by around 2 am the sky was brightening.

14 x 5 mins at iso 800 with a modded 40D and FL102s scope.

In spite of the noise I am very happy to have captured my first SN.

Dave

Nice image Dave - very impressed!

Hope you don't mind but I couldn't resist a quick go at noise reduction in Neat Image, using default settings. I'm sure you can clean this up a lot to improve it even further.

[fatwoul]

My Skyshed POD does not allow me to image close to the zenith and so had to wait until about 1 am this morning to start on this and then by around 2 am the sky was brightening...

Ditto!

I'm currently waiting until about the same time to catch M51, for the same reason. I didn't offset my pier, but I thought you did.

If it wasn't for the SN I wouldn't be in any hurry, though. Just wait another month and it'll be a bit better situated.

[Dave Smith]

Nice image Dave - very impressed!

Hope you don't mind but I couldn't resist a quick go at noise reduction in Neat Image, using default settings. I'm sure you can clean this up a lot to improve it even further.

Thank you very much Kevin. In fact you have done me a great favour. I have Neat Image but have never been able to use it properly as I've never got round to reading the instructions. Your version of my image has forced me to do that and the image in my post above has been changed to reflect that. It's actually very straight forward but I just missed what to do. So many thanks for the push.

Dave

[Dave Smith]

Ditto!

I'm currently waiting until about the same time to catch M51, for the same reason. I didn't offset my pier, but I thought you did.

If it wasn't for the SN I wouldn't be in any hurry, though. Just wait another month and it'll be a bit better situated.

No, my pier is central to the POD. In fact if it had been offset the situation would have been worse as usually people offset to the S and so more of the sky to the North of the zenith would be hidden.

Good luck Robin.

Dave

[Mark at Beaufort]

Thanks Dave for producing this photo of M51 with the SN. I have compared your image with the Stellarium software and have now produced a map corresponding to my 10" Dob and the 8mm Ethos.

If it goes clear tonight I will try and view my 3rd SN.

Thanks again.

Mark

[Dave Smith]

Pleased it was useful Mark, good luck tonight.

Dave

[Mark at Beaufort]

Dave thanks again for your photo which I cross referenced with a star chart to match my FOV with the 8mm Ethos and the 10" Dob.

Found the SN after midnight and I estimate it to be brighter than the nearby 13.4 star.

Mark

[mike_777]

great